Blockbuster business deals heat up region
Last year, it was Gerald Ford of Texas who led the way as investors poured something like $700 million of new capital into the region’s banking system.
Read More →A sobering reality check
Editor Henry Dubroff surveys business leaders across the Tri-Counties to check the pulse of the recovery
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: 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 →UCSB economist warns of future tax hikes
Higher taxes are an inevitable consequence of ad-hoc policymaking, according to UC Santa Barbara economics professor Peter Rupert. Rupert, who heads the UCSB Economic Forecast Project, told a breakfast audience of Santa Barbara-area business leaders on Dec. 8 that temporary subsidies such as “cash for clunkers” and payments to first-time homebuyers were largely useless. He 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 →
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