March 26, 2018— President Trump tweeted on March 2 and 7, respectively: “When a country (USA) is losing billions of dollars of trade with virtually every country it does business with, trade wars are good, and easy to win. Example, when we are down $100 billion with a certain country and they get cute, don’t
This Issues and Insights discusses recent changes to Connecticut’s estate and gift tax. Connecticut (CT) is the only state that still imposes a gift tax, which is unified with the Connecticut estate tax in the same way as the federal estate and gift tax system. Recent legislation modified the CT tax law, specifically the estate
March 22, 2018 — In his first meeting as Chairman of the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) of the Federal Reserve (Fed), Jay Powell found himself presiding over a group of officials who are becoming increasingly confident in the outlook for growth and inflation, and by extension are increasingly confident of their plans to raise
