Meg Waters is the editor in chief of Treasury & Risk. She is the former editor in chief of BPM Magazine and the former managing editor of Business Finance.
Although U.S. interest rates are sitting at 23-year highs, the pockets of pain they are causing are nothing like the systemic problems that so often wrecked expansions in the past.
With careful planning, corporate leaders can often avoid substantial tax liabilities when they make a former captive's assets available to meet the future business needs of related entities.
Although the Fed and the Bank of England have not yet started cutting rates, the ECB follows counterparts in Canada and other parts of the world that have already started easing.