In addition, I support an excise tax on certain luxury items like yachts and very high-end, luxury automobiles. We should also install tolls at state border crossings, so that people entering Massachusetts from out of state support the cost of …

She saw the brands North Beach Leather and Sam Adams beer take off there after stories she did about them for her luxury–goods show on FujiTV, which was broadcast from New York. Now her bag is filled with the stories of a road warrior. In her vintage …

Sure, there are plenty of places to pick up high-end purses and watches throughout the town of Greenwich, but Alan Larrabure insists that Timeless Gallery is different, with well-sourced products that have been previously owned, offering discerning …

Protests in Hong Kong, an economic slowdown and an anti-corruption drive in China and a coup in Thailand. This and more is leading many to conclude that Asia is no longer a market of constant growth for luxury goods firms. LVMH, the world's No. 1 in …

Slowing economic growth in China, along with a clampdown on lavish spending by government officials, is crippling luxury goods firms that are used to viewing the growing pool of wealthy and brand-conscious consumers in the world's No. 2 economy as a …

What is more, if China ever gets tired of seeing its wealthy rush abroad to spend money, it could undermine the whole phenomenon with a stroke of the pen by eliminating luxury and consumption taxes that make many consumer goods far more expensive on …

Got £17,500 to spare? If you're a fan of luxury items and Tom Cleverley, then perhaps you'll be interested in buying a unique watch engraved with the midfielder's name and Manchester United squad number. A Blackpool pawnbroker is seeking to recoup a …

Remember the "luxury tax"? The idea is understandable — anyone who can afford luxury items like furs, cars, yachts, private jets and jewelry probably won't bat an eye at a few extra dollars. Congress bought the argument, enacting such a tax in 1991 …

Hong Kong's retail sales, particularly of luxury items, have been hit in the past six months and the civil unrest has dealt another blow to the economy. The city is critically dependent on China, its largest export and import partner. More than 75 per …