How CFOs can drive growth amid geopolitical uncertainty

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(Outlet: CFO.com) CFOs who embrace a geostrategy will have more confidence to guide their companies to success, write Courtney Rickert McCaffrey, EY Global geostrategy insights leader and director of business and CXO insights at Ernst & Young; Oliver Jones, EY Global SaT markets, sustainability and geostrategy leader at Ernst & Young; and Witold J. Henisz, vice dean and faculty director of ESG Initiative at The Wharton School.Read More

Carbon markets give environmentalists hope after US elections

Steam is released from a petroleum refinery in Sulphur, Louisiana, U.S., June 12, 2018.

(Outlet: Reuters) A rare bright spot for environmentalists in last week’s U.S. election results came in Washington State, where voters easily defeated an attempt to end the state’s carbon market by a margin of 62% to 38%. Analysts said the result was in line with widespread interest in the structures that allow investors to put a price on emissions.Read More

The potential economic impact of Trump’s mass deportation promise

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(Outlet: PBS News) Immigration is a key issue of this campaign. Vice President Harris says if elected, she will pass a bipartisan bill strengthening border security. Former President Trump promises a much larger crackdown including mass deportations. Zeke Hernandez, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, says “We have very clear evidence that native-born young men and women will simply not do those jobs. They will not take them, even during times of very high unemployment.”Read More