Republicans accused the White House of “never” balancing the budget, and Mr. Ryan argued that ending deficits would foster a healthier and faster-growing economy. Show us how to balance the budget,” Mr....
House Ways and Means Chairman Dave Camp (R-Mich.) on Tuesday released a draft of the committee’s latest tax reform legislation, which includes various proposals to simplify tax rules that affect millions of small business owners and their employees. The legislation would, for instance, create one...
Retail sales in the United States rose more than expected in February, suggesting that consumer spending this quarter will hold up despite higher taxes....
Cargo volume at the nation's ports is expected increase in March, despite port slowdowns as a result of automatic federal budget cuts, according to a retail group. A monthly Global Port Tracker released Monday by the National Retail Federation predicted that March cargo volume...
Three separate measures of sales at stores open at least a year showed revenue dampened by economic factors such as higher gas prices, stubbornly high unemployment and a payroll tax boost....
The discussions include the 11-nation Transpacific Partnership, a potentially sweeping agreement that would tie the United States more closely to North American neighbors Canada and Mexico and open new relations with growing Asian economies such as Vietnam. South Korea and Japan, the world’s third largest...
Here’s what I want to TSA to do. Get rid of the shoe-removal requirement. It’s inconvenient. It limits one’s outfit options when the fab lace-up boots get kicked to the curb because of the time it takes to lace and unlace them. ...
A Federal Reserve survey released Wednesday found the U.S. economy grew in most parts of the country in January and February...
Kanchit Chanthanapornchai, chairman of the Association of Thai Footwear Industrial Promotion said that Thai footwear industry’s production dropped to 13.7 million pairs last year from its normal annual level of 19 million pairs....
Indeed, "innovation and distribution are key," said Matt Priest, president of the Footwear Distributors and Retailers of America, an industry trade group. "They had to reinvent themselves in the sense they have developed new products that customers wanted to buy," Mr. Priest said. "It's...