Borrowing Money

CIT's Bankruptcy Is Not Doomsday for Small Businesses

Jerry Chautin | Posted 11.12.2009 | Business


Jerry Chautin

CIT has been a stalwart lender for small businesses. But there are alternatives if you look for them.

You Can Borrow Small Amounts of Business Capital Now

Jerry Chautin | Posted 11.02.2009 | Business


Jerry Chautin

Although small business, economic stimulus lending is being widely criticized, $5,000 to $25,000 is available to you if you have a reasonable credit score and meet basic underwriting criteria.

Just Say "No" to Adult Children Wanting Money

Don McNay | Posted 10.20.2009 | Business


Don McNay

You are not doing your children any favors by not allowing them to grow up. I'm OK with parents helping children through college (in four years, not forty), but after that they are on their own.

Commercial Real Estate: 90% Financing at Low Rates Is Possible

Jerry Chautin | Posted 10.20.2009 | Business


Jerry Chautin

The lesser-known 504 program from the U.S. Small Business Administration can be ideal for small-business owners to buy, build or rehabilitate commercial buildings.

SBA's Stimulus Lending is Tainted by Political Meddling

Jerry Chautin | Posted 08.21.2009 | Business


Jerry Chautin

The credit markets are improving and the banks can sell the guaranteed portion of their SBA loans at premiums closer to what they got before the financial meltdown.

Blaming the Victims: Heroic American Consumers

Ann Pettifor | Posted 03.12.2009 | Business


Ann Pettifor

High levels of debt and consumption were not the result of millions of individual decisions by consumers. They were the result of a deliberate economic 'regime change' in the 1970s.

What I've Gleaned So Far About the Stimulus Plan: Get Ready to Put Out

Leighann Lord | Posted 03.09.2009 | Comedy


Leighann Lord

When The Stimulus Plan left the House of Representatives, it was clocking in at 1,788 pages. For a bit of perspective, War and Peace - the longest novel in literary history - is 1,463 pages and is only slightly less boring.