Editorial: Key ingredients missing in tax-cut deal
The Dec. 6 deal that extends unemployment benefits and the Bush-era tax breaks erases a lot of uncertainty.
Read More →A speed bump in Oxnard’s road to recovery
Oxnard’s seemingly bright future has hit a few rough spots
Read More →Editorial: Don’t let firms dodge public earnings reports
Back in the 1980s, when the film “Wall Street” was all the rage in Hollywood, corporate earnings releases were still somewhat of an inside game. In the heady days before the 1987 market crash, a savvy trader could grab the earnings off “the wire” and trade for a moment or two before the general public Read More →
Read More →Suddenly, deficit is talk of the town
WASHINGTON, D.C. — All of a sudden, deficit reduction is the name of the game. It is as though someone flipped a switch on Nov. 2 and suddenly the one-trick pony that is politics in the nation’s capital is obsessed with the idea of balancing the federal budget. Not that I am complaining. As I Read More →
Read More →Editorial: Give till it helps
The Business Times encourages tri-county businesses to follow the lead of Montecito Bank & Trust, which gives away $1 million in Community Dividends each fall.
Read More →Editorial: Bidding good riddance to the awful 1099 rule
The so-called “1099 rule” was a disaster waiting to happen. Happily, it is a disaster that looks like it will be averted. News shortly before Thanksgiving that the U.S. Small Business Administration was publicly opposing the rule seems to be the last nail in the coffin for this ill-conceived tax on entrepreneurship. As the Business Read More →
Read More →Jobless data may portend broad recovery
The tri-county region is showing signs of digging itself out of a deep hole.
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