Robert Samuelson is right about the Congressional Budget Office’s estimate that this year’s budget deficit will only be $642 billion:

It is fitting that during National Transportation Week the Senate, for the first time since 2007, passed a water resources bill.  Shepherded by Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA) and Senator David Vitter (R-LA) through a unanimous committee vote and a strong bipartisan floor vote of

Yesterday, the Third Circuit invalidated yet another one of President Obama’s recess appointments to the NLRB.  As you may remember, the D.C. Circuit, in its Noel Canning v. NLRB decision, sided with the U.S. Chamber’s lawyers and held that the President’s appointments of Sharon Block, Terence F.

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The Department of Energy (DOE) approved a license for a Texas facility to export liquefied natural gas (LNG). FuelFix reports:

Everyone is entitled to his own opinions — but not his own facts. As it happens, a number of common myths about international investment are based on politics, hype, ignorance, and pretty much anything but the truth.

As we wrap up International Investment Week, we devote this final post in our series to tackling a few persistent myths about international investment.

I was hoping Interior Secretary Sally Jewell would pass her first test on fully embracing America’s energy abundance.

Thousands of small businesses have been left out to dry because the federal government hasn’t been paying its bills. The General Services Administration (GSA) admits to owing over 1,200 small business contractors $3,108,888. 

Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper traveled to New York City yesterday to talk up the benefits of the Keystone XL pipeline and Canadian energy in genera

A prospect downloads a white paper, clicks a PPC ad, or signs up for (or actually attends) a webinar you host. The activity is noted, and is immediately assigned to a salesperson by someone in the marketing department (often automatically, via the CRM system). The eager salesperson dutifully follows up with a phone call. And another call. And another one. Frustrated, he chalks it up to another lousy lead from marketing, and moves on back to his cold calling. And the next time he gets a lead from marketing, he will prioritize it accordingly among his daily tasks.

A year ago at the stroke of midnight, a planeload of flowers left Bogota to become the first shipment under the U.S.-Colombia Trade Promotion Agreement while some sleepy children waved flags.

Later that day, a Harley-Davidson motorcycle was unveiled in Bogota as one the first U.S. exports to Colombia under the agreement.

As we wrote in our opening post for International Investment Week, international investment drives trade. But while trade agreements often draw headlines, investment pacts attract less attention.

In April, Japan joined negotiations in the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), a proposed trade and investment agreement with 11 other Asia-Pacific countries. The latest round of negotiations began in Lima, Peru.

The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released estimates showing that the federal budget deficit will not be as big as expected in FY2013:

What is it? That wide expanse of digital real estate on the top of your business Facebook page is like your retail store window (even if you’re not a retailer). It’s the first thing clients/customers see when they are “passing by.” If you owned a shop, you wouldn’t have undressed mannequins in your window or food that has been growing mold for months. Your Facebook business page is every bit as important as your website and your cover should reflect your brand in the best possible and most current light.

The United States is sitting on a lot of coal. If policymakers don’t want it used to generate electricity, we should be able to ship it to countries that want it, right?