Greg Dufour. (Photo courtesy Camden Rotary Club)
Camden National Bank President and Chief Executive Officer Greg Dufour will address the Camden Rotary Club, Tuesday, March 16, at noon. His talk, “Post-Pandemic Opportunities and Challenges,” will be the sixth in a series the club is hosting about local economic and workforce development.
Dufour will tell how Camden National Bank responded to the pandemic and share his views on future economic conditions in the Midcoast. Topics will include the trend toward remote work, what will be needed for economic growth in the region during the coming decade, and the challenge of providing median-income workforce-accessible housing.
Tech giants
One particularly contentious issue is how some of the world s biggest tech companies are taxed.
The EU and the U.S. have been at odds over this matter, as well as security concerns around 5G, for years. But since Biden arrived at the White House, the EU is confident that some of these disagreements can be overcome.
In fact, the U.S. has opened the door toward a deal over digital taxation, which the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development aims to conclude this summer.
But Biden has not departed from all of his predecessor s policies completely. He has implemented the Buy American First initiative, to incentivize manufacturing in the country and to boost the overall economy as the coronavirus pandemic takes its toll on the world s largest economic power.
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Emily Robotham discovers.
For many who work in wine, lockdown has provided an unsought moment of reflection that has led to important conversations about the opportunities available to women working in the industry, and the intersection between gender, race and new technologies.
In October 2020, a collection of private messages edited to look like a newsletter from an anonymous source using the alias ‘wineb tch’ circulated on Twitter, the provocative contents of which caused offense to many members of the trade, not least those who were targeted in the posts.