11/14/2017

BUSINESS/DREAMERS/IMMIGRATION/LOBBYING/POLITICS: “Large U.S. businesses and their lobby groups are redoubling a push for legislation to protect young people brought to the U.S. illegally as children, urging lawmakers to act before the year is out. On Wednesday [11-15-17], executives from about 40 companies plan to travel to Capitol Hill to lobby members of Congress, with some […]

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11/7/2017

BUSINESS/LOBBYING/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “During the eight years of the Obama administration, business lobbyists often found the gates to the White House closed tight. They are open now under President Donald Trump. That is not altogether unexpected as the New York real estate developer did campaign during the 2016 presidential election on a promise to elevate […]

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11/2/2017

BUSINESS: “Broadcom’s move to America=$20 BILLION of annual rev into U.S.A., $3+ BILLION/yr. in research/engineering & $6 BILLION/yr. in manufacturing. https://t.co/NsJ4PtVTtl” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, Nov. 2, 2017 03:33pm […]

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11/2/2017

BUSINESS: “Today, we are thrilled to welcome @Broadcom CEO Hock Tan to the WH to announce he is moving their HQ’s from Singapore back to the U.S.A….. https://t.co/WrqUXBndyZ” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, Nov. 2, 2017 02:58pm […]

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11/2/2017

BUSINESS/CHINA/COMMERCE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Goldman Sachs Group Inc Chief Executive Lloyd Blankfein will visit China as part of a business delegation in November at the same time as U.S. President Donald Trump, a Goldman spokesman confirmed. Blankfein will be the only executive of a major financial company traveling as part of the trade mission which is […]

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10/17/2017

BUSINESS/IRAQ/LEGAL: “A lawsuit filed in federal court on Tuesday [10-17-17] contends that major American corporations doing business with the Iraqi government during the Iraq War also provided it with free drugs and medical devices that became an important source of funding for a Shiite militia that targeted United States troops. The lawsuit was filed on […]

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10/16/2017

BUSINESS/LABOR: “The Labor Department is enlisting the help of corporate executives, labor unions and governors to develop its policy of expanding the use of apprenticeships in the U.S. The department will announce 23 members of the president’s apprenticeship task force on Monday, charging them with crafting a plan to expand use of the training strategy […]

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10/14/2017

BUSINESS/CRISIS/PUERTO RICO: “Weeks after Hurricane Maria struck Puerto Rico, Alejandra Fedato, owner of a clothing boutique in San Juan’s Condado neighborhood, is having a hard time reopening. Without power, she can’t take customer credit cards. She is still waiting for an insurance adjuster to assess the costs of flood damage. Never mind that many of […]

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10/12/2017

BUSINESS/HEALTHCARE/TRUMP EXEC ORDERS: ” ‘Promoting Healthcare Choice and Competition Across the United States’ Trump’s Executive Order on health care seeks to do three main things: allow small businesses more leeway to group together when providing or purchasing insurance, increase the availability and duration of short-term health insurance plans and widen the use of Health Reimbursement […]

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10/4/2017

BUSINESS/CONSUMER PROTECTION/CYBERWAR/POLITICS: “Senators questioning Equifax Inc.’s former chief Wednesday [10-4-17] attacked the business model of the credit-reporting industry, asking why consumers shouldn’t have power over the data that the companies collect on them. The hearing, one of a series this week, was as much about the control consumers have over their personal data as it […]

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9/17/2017

BUSINESS/INTELLIGENCE/RUSSIA: “Michael Cohen, one of President Donald Trump’s closest business advisers, said on Sunday [9-17-17] he would testify on Tuesday to the U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee, as the panel investigates alleged Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. election. The timing of Cohen’s testimony was first reported by NBC. Cohen confirmed that he would testify to […]

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9/13/2017

BUSINESS/CHINA/TAXES: “China has a business tax rate of 15%. We should do everything possible to match them in order to win with our economy. Jobs and wages!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, September 13, 2017 09:22pm […]

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9/13/2017

BUSINESS/TAXES: “Governments around the world have continued to cut their tax rates on company profits, pushing them further below that of the U.S. as the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development warned the competition to aid businesses may be going too far. In its annual review of changes to tax policies, the Paris-based think tank […]

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9/13/2017

BUSINESS/TAXES: “Sen. Ted Cruz (R., Texas) will lay down a marker in the tax debate on Wednesday [9-13-17], endorsing full and immediate deductions for capital investment by businesses. In a speech at a Tax Foundation event, Mr. Cruz will emphasize that such full expensing instead of current multiyear depreciation schedules would make the tax code […]

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9/5/2017

BUSINESS/DREAMERS/IMMIGRATION/JOBS: “American employers say they are missing one key ingredient these days: Workers. Finding qualified and available candidates is a major challenge for companies. Some have cut back on hiring as a result. Many businesses — from farmers to Facebook — plug the gap with some of the 27 million foreign-born workers living in the […]

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9/1/2017

BUSINESS/DREAMERS/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Top executives at a range of companies, business groups and academic institutions banded together to voice support for an Obama-era program protecting young, illegal immigrants amid concerns that President Donald Trump could end the policy. In an open letter, more than 350 executives and other organization leaders urged Mr. Trump and congressional […]

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8/27/2017

BUSINESS/TRUMP FAMILY/IVANKA: “His vendors call him a ‘career grifter.’ His father’s creditors claim he’s a fraud and a serial extortionist who shakes people down with trumped-up threats of criminal charges. With these and other allegations piling up in court records along with judgments—against him, his wife and his businesses—for millions of dollars, his lawyers are […]

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8/24/2017

BUSINESS/FOREIGN POLICY/IRAN: “Officially, Apple has no presence in Iran. Because of American sanctions against the country, the company’s iPhones are not legally available for sale here, and Apple does not offer a version of its App Store in the country. That has not stopped Iranians from snapping up millions of iPhones smuggled in from places […]

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8/22/2017

BUSINESS/RACISM/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Last Wednesday [8-23-17], even as top executives were abandoning President Trump’s business advisory councils after his remarks on white supremacist violence in Charlottesville, Va., other industry leaders were busy making their interests known to a business-friendly White House. Jerry Howard, chief executive of the National Association of Home Builders, a trade group, […]

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8/22/2017

BUSINESS/ENERGY/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Coal magnate Robert Murray has just joined Wall Street billionaire Carl Icahn in an exclusive club — wealthy backers of President Donald Trump who tried and failed to get lucrative concessions from his administration. Murray, CEO of Murray Energy, one of the nation’s biggest and most politically active coal miners, complained in […]

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8/18/2017

BUSINESS/PROTESTS/RACISM: “A prominent Internet rights group has condemned Google and GoDaddy for refusing to manage the domain registration for the neo-Nazi website The Daily Stormer. The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), a non-profit organization that defends digital civil liberties, issued a blistering statement on Thursday slamming the domain gatekeepers for using their power to silence speech. […]

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8/17/2017

BUSINESS/RACISM/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “As corporate chieftains on a White House advisory panel debated on Wednesday [8-16-17] on whether to disband, a few spoke up in favor of sticking with President Trump. They made their case in terms of business self-interest, patriotism and pragmatism. Jack Welch, the retired leader of General Electric, said the business leaders […]

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8/16/2017

BUSINESS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump found himself increasingly isolated in a racial crisis of his own making on Wednesday [8-16-17], abandoned by the nation’s top business executives, contradicted by military leaders and shunned by Republicans outraged by his defense of white nationalist protesters in Charlottesville, Va. The breach with the business community was the most […]

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8/16/2017

BUSINESS/GOP/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The bar for a chief executive of a public corporation to repudiate a United States president is extraordinarily high. Corporate leaders aren’t given their power, prestige, responsibility and nine-figure pay packages to use the corner office as their personal soapbox. With President Trump’s comments on white supremacists and other right-wing extremists ringing […]

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8/16/2017

BUSINESS/TAXES/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “After President Trump accused Amazon on Wednesday [8-16-17] morning of hurting local retailers and jobs by not paying taxes, the company’s shares dipped in premarket trading. ‘Amazon is doing great damage to tax paying retailers. Towns, cities and states throughout the U.S. are being hurt — many jobs being lost!’ he tweeted […]

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8/16/2017

BUSINESS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump’s turnabout on the violence in Charlottesville, Virginia has rocked his administration, leading to rising speculation that some top officials may be looking for a way out. A parade of business executives broke ties with Trump on Wednesday [8-16-17], a day after he blamed white nationalists and counter-protesters in equal […]

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8/16/2017

BUSINESS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Two of President Donald Trump’s councils of top business leaders are disbanding, following controversial remarks made by Mr. Trump on Tuesday [8-15-17]. Mr. Trump tweeted Wednesday that he was ending the White House council on manufacturing and the Strategic and Policy Forum. One of the councils had planned to disband after a […]

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8/16/2017

BUSINESS/RACISM: “Technology companies’ recent moves to crack down on white supremacists thrust them into unusual territory for corporations that often take a more hands-off approach to who uses their services and how. In the wake of weekend violence at a white supremacists rally in Charlottesville, Va., Alphabet Inc.’s GOOGL +0.58% Google and GoDaddy Inc. GDDY […]

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8/16/2017

BUSINESS: “Amazon is doing great damage to tax paying retailers. Towns, cities and states throughout the U.S. are being hurt – many jobs being lost!” -Donald Trump, Twitter.com, August 16, 2017 05:12am […]

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7/14/2017

BUSINESS/ETHICS/TRUMP FAMILY/JARED KUSHNER: “Prominent technology-industry leaders and venture capitalists gathered in the White House’s state dining room last month to discuss tech policy with President Donald Trump in an event that Jared Kushner, the president’s son-in-law and senior adviser, helped organize. Seated at the rectangular table alongside the corporate luminaries, university presidents and senior White […]

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6/19/2017

BUSINESS/CYBERWAR: “Top executives from the tech industry are coming to the White House on Monday [6-19-17] for meetings aimed at updating federal computer systems, part of a push to save money, guard against cyberattacks and make government websites easier to use. Executives including Amazon.com Inc. Chief Executive Jeff Bezos, Apple Inc. CEO Tim Cook and […]

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2/21/2017

BUSINESS/TRADE DEALS/TRUMP BUSINESS: “Donald J. Trump has cast himself as the anti-globalist president. But Donald Trump, the businessman, is a different story. During the campaign, Mr. Trump’s organization continued to file dozens of new trademarks, in China, Canada, Mexico, the European Union and Indonesia, and one of his companies applied for trademark protection in the […]

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2/20/2017

BUSINESS/TRUMP BUSINESS: “Donald Trump has a vast online portfolio of domain names — digital addresses that foreshadowed his political career, business projects and accusations of unethical behavior. Before he reached the White House, Trump’s company had laid claim to at least 3,643 website domains, according to internet records gathered by CNNMoney. The buying spree continued […]

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2/12/2017

BUSINESS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP FAMILY: “President Trump’s old office on the 26th floor of Trump Tower in Manhattan sits unoccupied now, unofficial storage space for the gathering trove of memorabilia that his two oldest sons say they hope will eventually be turned over to their father’s presidential library. But just one flight down, in Eric and […]

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2/11/2017

BUSINESS/TRUMP FAMILY/IVANKA: “Trump-branded consumer products have suffered new blows, with U.S. retailers Sears Holdings Corp and Kmart Corp discontinuing online sales of 31 Trump Home items, while new details emerged showing sales of Ivanka Trump’s brand fell in the weeks before Nordstrom Inc stopped carrying her products. Sears and its wholly owned subsidiary, Kmart, disclosed […]

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2/9/2017

BUSINESS/ETHICS/TRUMP FAMILY/IVANKA: “Ivanka Trump seems to be caught in the jaws of this divide. It’s hard to separate her clothing line from her father’s hard-line politics. Millennial women are less inclined to shop Ivanka’s look as an ugly election turns into an even more divisive presidency. And the campaign to boycott all Trump-related businesses aren’t […]

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2/8/2017

BUSINESS/TRUMP FAMILY/IVANKA: “My daughter Ivanka has been treated so unfairly by @Nordstrom. She is a great person — always pushing me to do the right thing! Terrible!”  – Donald Trump, Twitter.com, Feb. 8, 2017 10:51am […]

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2/8/2017

BUSINESS/ECONOMY/JOBS: “Thank you Brian Krzanich, CEO of @Intel. A great investment ($7 BILLION) in American INNOVATION and JOBS! #AmericaFirst????????”  – Donald Trump, Twitter.com, Feb. 8, 2017 10:23am […]

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2/6/2017

BUSINESS/IMMIGRATION/NATIONAL SECURITY/TRAVEL BAN: “Early Monday, two former secretaries of state — John F. Kerry and Madeline Albright — joined a six-page joint statement saying Trump’s [travel ban] order ‘undermines’ national security and will ‘endanger U.S. troops in the field.’ The rare declaration, addressed to the 9th Circuit, was also backed by top former national security […]

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2/3/2017

BUSINESS/HEALTHCARE/TAXES: “Meeting with biggest business leaders this morning. Good jobs are coming back to U.S., health care and tax bills are being crafted NOW!”  – Donald Trump, Twitter.com, Feb. 3, 2017 06:41am […]

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7/6/2016

BANKRUPTCY/BUSINESS: “Even the once great Caesars is bankrupt in A.C. Others to follow. Ask the Democrat City Council what happened to Atlantic City.”  – Donald Trump, Twitter.com, July 6, 2016 06:24am […]

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7/1/2015

BUSINESS/RACISM: “Interesting that @Macys criticized me but just paid $650,000 in fines for racial profiling. Are they racists?”  – 7/1/2015, Donald Trump, Twitter.com, 7/1/2015 […]

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7/1/2015

BORDER/BUSINESS/IMMIGRATION: “For all of those who want to #MakeAmericaGreatAgain, boycott @Macys. They are weak on border security & stopping illegal immigration.”  – 7/1/2015, Donald Trump, Twitter.com, 7/1/2015 […]

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6/19/2015

BANKRUPTCY/BUSINESS: “Almost every major dealmaker has used the bankruptcy laws as a business tool. Icahn, Black, Zell—but nobody says they went bankrupt!”  – 6/19/2015, Donald Trump, Twitter.com, 6/19/2015 […]

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6/19/2015

BANKRUPTCY/BUSINESS: “People buy deals & immediately put them into bankruptcy in order to make better deals. It’s a very effective & commonly used business tool.”  – 6/19/2015, Donald Trump, Twitter.com, 6/19/2015 […]

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5/27/2015

BUSINESS: “In business, you make decisions that are in your best interests. Time for the US gov’t to do the same. Let’s Make America Great Again!”  – 5/27/2015, Donald Trump, Twitter.com, 5/27/2015 […]

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5/12/2015

BUSINESS: “What a STUPID deal for Verizon to buy AOL for $4.4 billion. AOL has been bad luck for everyone who touched it. Worth less than $1 billion!”  – 5/12/2015, Donald Trump, Twitter.com, 5/12/2015 […]

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7/31/2014

BUSINESS: “Vera Coking made a big mistake in Atlantic City by turning down many millions of $’s years ago for property that just sold for $530,000.”  – 7/31/2014, Donald Trump, Twitter.com, trumptwitterarchive.com, 7/31/2014 […]

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7/30/2014

BUSINESS: “In any business, there will be ups and downs. If you can weather the rough times your success will be even greater during high times.”  – 7/30/2014, Donald Trump, Twitter.com, trumptwitterarchive.com, 7/30/2014 […]

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7/14/2014

ADVICE/BUSINESS: “Refloating the Costa Concordia for many hundreds of millions of $’s is ridiculous. Should have taken it apart in small pieces – save fortune”  – 7/14/2014, Donald Trump, Twitter.com, trumptwitterarchive.com, 7/14/2014 […]

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10/11/2013

BUSINESS: “Jack Welch thinks Sam Palmisano, retired CEO of IBM, should be the next CEO of MICROSOFT. Interesting!”  – 10/11/2013, Donald Trump, Twitter.com, trumptwitterarchive.com, 10/11/2013 […]

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10/2/2013

BUSINESS: “Wow, three top MICROSOFT investors want Bill Gates out as Chairman. Do not like job he is doing!”  – 10/2/2013, Donald Trump, Twitter.com, trumptwitterarchive.com, 10/2/2013 […]

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9/27/2013

BUSINESS/JOBS: “Don’t believe the manipulated job numbers. Walmart has just cut orders with suppliers because of rising inventory.”  – Sept. 27, 2013, Donald Trump, Twitter.com, trumptwitterarchive.com, 9/27/2013 […]

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