globalEDGE Business Beat with guest Kirt Butler
Speaker: Kirt Butler, Faculty in the Department of Finance, Eli Broad College of Business at Michigan State University
Air Date: January 08, 2018
Hosted by Tomas Hult, this segment of the globalEDGE Business Beat is an interview with Kirt Butler. Dr. Butler is a faculty in the Department of Finance and Director of Study Abroad for the Broad College of Business at Michigan State University, where he teaches international finance. He is author of Multinational Finance: Evaluating the Opportunities, Costs, and Risks of Multinational Operations.
Tomas Hult is Professor and Byington Endowed Chair in the Eli Broad College of Business at Michigan State University.
Broadly, the U.S. Congress approved a new tax plan in December 2017 that reduces the corporate tax rate to 21 percent, from the current 35 percent. Kirt shares his views regarding financial and economic implications that this tax cut has for corporations.
At the same time, individuals would also see tax cuts, including a top rate of 37 percent, down from 39.6 percent. Tomas and Kirt dialogue about the implications of the individual tax rates for consumer spending and the global economy.
They also discuss the stock market in the U.S. which went up some 25 percent in 2017. This is an unheard of increase in just one year. Kirt has some astute takeaways related to this stock market increase for corporations and global financial markets.
Speaker: Kirt Butler, Faculty in the Department of Finance, Eli Broad College of Business at Michigan State University
Air Date: January 08, 2018
Hosted by Tomas Hult, this segment of the globalEDGE Business Beat is an interview with Kirt Butler. Dr. Butler is a faculty in the Department of Finance and Director of Study Abroad for the Broad College of Business at Michigan State University, where he teaches international finance. He is author of Multinational Finance: Evaluating the Opportunities, Costs, and Risks of Multinational Operations.
Tomas Hult is Professor and Byington Endowed Chair in the Eli Broad College of Business at Michigan State University.
Tomas and Kirt dialogue about the implications of the stock market in the U.S., which went up some 25 percent in 2017. Kirt has some astute takeaways related to this stock market increase for corporations and global financial markets, sharing historical stock market data and implications.
Speaker: Kirt Butler, Faculty in the Department of Finance, Eli Broad College of Business at Michigan State University
Air Date: August 08, 2017
Hosted by Tomas Hult, this segment of the globalEDGE Business Beat is an interview with Kirt Butler is a faculty in the Department of Finance in the Eli Broad College of Business at Michigan State University. He specializes in international and corporate finance, and has authored a popular textbook on Multinational Finance. Tomas Hult is Professor and Byington Endowed Chair in the Eli Broad College of Business at Michigan State University.
This is one of six segments from August 2017 of the globalEDGE Business Beat on the importance of international trade with various topic experts (Doug Barry, Charles Hill, Mohamed Abdel-Kader, Sarah Singer, Kirt Butler, and Ram Mudambi). Each participant addressed: Why is international trade important for (1) countries and (2) companies; how should a company start looking into trading internationally; and what country markets, and customer segments within those markets, have the strongest potential in the next decade. The six experts’ answers and diversity of strategic and tactical suggestions provide small, medium, and large businesses choices on how to go international.