VIEWPOINTS

Today, we are building on investments we’ve been making in associates, in their wages and skills development. Tax reform gives us the opportunity to be more competitive globally and to accelerate plans for the U.S. — Doug McMillon, president and chief executive of Walmart regarding increased wages for workers.

If true, this is honestly a bomb for the Mexican peso. If you add on top of NAFTA noise the political uncertainty, the trend for Mexico’s peso is simple: weakness until July 1. — Juan Carlos Rodado, the New York-based head of research at Natixis SA, about the possibility of U.S. exiting the agreement.

At this point, you’d think anything would be game. Nothing’s off the table for them. — Edmunds.com Inc. analyst Jeremy Acevedo about auto manufacturers war for truck dominance.

[There’s] going to be a big wakeup call in the next month or two. There’s mom and pop investors asking about it now. I have explained how cryptocurrency works to my grandparents. — Andrew Schaefer, a federally licensed tax expert in Florida who represents taxpayers before the Internal Revenue Service about paying taxes on Bitcoin profits.

It’s hard to forecast exactly what is going to happen. Workers in occupations that deliver goods and services, like pizza delivery people - those types of work activities are most at risk of displacement by self-driving vehicles. — David Beede, an economist at the Department of Commerce about driverless pizza delivery