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For more than 40 years, the London Interbank Offered Rate, or LIBOR, has been a key benchmark for setting the cost of floating-rate debt around the world. LIBOR also plays a big role in pricing debt issued by corporate borrowers. Following the 2008 financial ...

It is not news that times are challenging for many, if not all, right now; however, the perseverance and care consistently seen in this state are reassuring and inspiring. We are thinking of you, and hoping your challenges ease soon. ...

Secretary Yellen:   I am writing to you to express in the strongest terms my concerns about the IRS reporting proposal set to be heard in the FY2023 budget resolution in the coming days.  First, let me be clear that we are in ...

Dear President Biden:   As House Republicans, we write because we refuse to stand by and watch as your administration dilutes America’s ability to ensure the safe and efficient movement of goods, people and services throughout our transportation network.  House Republicans have ...

The cost of textbooks can be daunting for college students. That cost, often hundreds for dollars per semester added to the cost of tuition, and in some cases room and board, can be a deciding factor on whether a student ...

On Sept. 9, President Biden announced forthcoming rules and regulations as part of a “Path out of the Pandemic,” including a variety of workplace vaccination mandates for three different types of businesses: (1) private employers with over 100 employees; (2) health care employers; and (3) employers ...

Dear City of Boise: I get to work with the world’s best developers of entrepreneurship. Nobody in Idaho knows more about this than I, but (a) I’ve reached to the world’s best and (b) to Idaho’s own best thinkers and doers. 1) ...

October is National Depression and Mental Health Screening Awareness Month. Since workplaces are where most of our time and energy are spent, employers have a huge responsibility when it comes to their employee’s health. The extended isolation and uncertainty many of us experienced during the past 20-plus months has intensified mental health concerns across the ...

The color pink has been associated with Susan G. Komen for the Cure, a Better Business Bureau-accredited charity, since the organization’s inception in 1982. Three years later, October was deemed Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Then in 1992, Self-magazine’s editor-in-chief created a pink ribbon and enlisted several cosmetics companies ...

  Even as someone who has spent their whole career in the charitable sector, it had never occurred to me just how much nonprofits touch every aspect of our lives as Idahoans. Previously, I had thought of the nonprofit sector as the mortar that fills the space between the ...