News from the US CHAMBER OF COMMERCE:
Don’t Forget About the Pacific Trade Deal
The Cost of Regulations: Lies, Damned Lies and Statistics
Here’s an Enormous Spreadsheet the EEOC Wants to Make Employers Fill Out
House Small Biz Leader: Entrepreneurs Need These Three Things from Congress
USDA:
USDA Expands Insurance Options for Farmers Transitioning to Certified Organic Agriculture
Statement from Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack on New Biobased Laundry Detergent
FACT SHEET: Overview of USDA's BioPreferred Program
Statement from Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack on Research Showing Significant Improvement in Efficiency of Ethanol Production and Other Trends
Related news story: Pacific Northwest could become hub for methanol production---PDN
Editor's Note: Wouldn't that be something if we could get one of those plants to be here in Port Angeles? That would spark some much needed employment here, if we had ambitious leaders here that would pitch one of these proposed plants to be here. But they seem to embroiled in sort of controversy in something or another to even take notice.
US TREASURY DEPT: Sheets Op-ed: The Importance of China's Transition to Smarter Growth
US TREASURY DEPT: Treasury Announces Additional Investment in Hardest Hit Fund
In other business and finance news...
This is the internal email Apple's CEO sent all employees this morning (AAPL)---Tech Insider
Starbucks tightens rewards program rules (REU)
Lumber Liquidators’ Flooring Has Increased Cancer Risk, CDC Says---Bloomberg
Secrets of those Social Security benefit statements--CNBC
British pound plummets amid EU exit fears---USA TODAY
Kalamazoo shooting: A look at Uber background checks---USA TODAY
Goldman Sachs: 40% of lending to oil and gas firms is junk--BLOOMBERG
Republican Marco Rubio winning Wall Street fundraising race--BLOOMBERG
Lower oil and higher gold could be great for African investments--yahoo news
DAILY DEVOTIONAL
There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear involves torment. But he who fears has not been made perfect in love.
1 John 4:18 NKJV
