Bloomberg

Salt Lake City and Fort Lauderdale, Florida, cracked the top 10 for the first time in the annual ranking by PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP and the Urban Land Institute.

The agreement brings some respite to the Toronto-based owner of Saks Fifth Avenue, which has been cutting thousands of jobs.

Reports suggested Federal Reserve Governor Jerome Powell was in front, then Stanford economist John Taylor, and maybe Powell and Taylor as a package deal somehow.

The lack of specifics continues to frustrate members of the House Freedom Caucus, who are negotiating support of the budget resolution in exchange for assurances on the timing of a tax bill’s release.

Real estate groups were among those spending heavily, according to lobbying disclosures released Friday for the three months ending Sept. 30.

Cohn, director of the National Economic Council, is also a contender for the Fed post.

Families were once regarded as slow-moving and inexperienced investors, but that’s all changed in the past few years.

The strategy includes opening dozens of smaller stores in places like New York, Los Angeles, Chicago and Philadelphia.