Bill Miller emails: "On January 1, 2011, Americans will face the biggest tax hike in history."  IBD breaks it down:

According to Politico's Playbook, here are remarks Secretary Geithner will give later today at NYU's Stern School of Business

Our Chief Economist, Dr. Martin Regalia, issued the following statement today on data showing that U.S. economic growth slowed to an annual rate of 2.4% in the second quarter of this year from a revised first quarter growth rate of 3.7%:

The data for real growth released today confirms the belief that the economy is slowing sharply.

It is not clear who in the business community actually reads Steve Pearlstein’s columns in the Washington Post -- but it is clear that he thinks his anti-business friends will applaud any time he takes a smack at the U.S. Chamber. In this world of “page views at any cost” he seems fixated on driving “progressive” and organized labor readers by fixating on us whenever he gets a chance.

Today the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA’s) denied the U.S. Chamber’s petition to reconsider triggering the Clean Air Act to regulate greenhouse gas emissions.

The U.S. Chamber, policymakers, numerous trade groups, state governments, and businesses throughout the country have collectively raised strong concerns about the significant negative impact EPA’s endangerment finding will have on jobs and local economies.