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No Easy Jumpstart To Get Small Business Hiring Again

HuffingtonPost.com | Shahien Nasiripour | Posted 12.03.2009 | Business

Read More: Tarp, Small Business, Lending, Employment, Main Street, Jobs, Unemployment, Bailout, Loans, Job, Financial Crisis, Hiring, Banks, Wall Street, Job Creation, Bank Regulators, Small Businesses, Transparency, Business News

As 130 business, labor and thought leaders converge on the White House today to discuss ways to create more jobs, the nation's main engine for job cre...

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Economist Predicts Just 2% Growth In 2010

New York Times | GRETCHEN MORGENSON | Posted 11.28.2009 | Business

Read More: Mortgage Purchase, Earnings, Cost Cutting, Walmart, Recovery, Lending, Credit Crisis, Economic Growth, Mcdonalds, Dubai, Gdp, Federal Reserve, Fed, Bernanke, Financial Crisis, Wall Street, Productivity, Business News

A Robust economic recovery in 2010 is certainly on most investors' wish lists as this year draws to a close. A return to prosperity would not only mea...

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Faced With Strong Banks And Weak Credit Markets, Treasury May Be Rethinking TARP

AP | JIM KUHNHENN | Posted 11.24.2009 | Business

Read More: Tarp, Finanical-Crisis, Treasury Department, Credit, Bailout, Wall Street, Lending, Tim Geithner, Troubled Asset Relief Program, Gm, Banks, Consumer Spending, Credit Markets, Recession, Business News

WASHINGTON — Big banks are roaring back. At crisis' edge last year, they are repaying billions of dollars dumped into their vaults to rescue th...

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TARP Failures Keep Taxpayers On The Hook; 33 Companies Miss Payment

Posted 11.16.2009 | Business

Read More: Tarp, White House, TARP Money, Lending, Economy, Bailouts, Regulation, Obama, Taxpayers, Recession, Wall Street, Bailout, Fed, Treasury, Banks, Citigroup, Cit, Business News

According to The Washington Post, 33 companies that received a portion of TARP's $700 billion have not paid the federal government their most recent d...

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FDIC Chief Sheila Bair: Big Banks Still Aren't Lending Enough

AP | STEVENSON JACOBS | Posted 11.11.2009 | Business

Read More: Fdic, Bank Lending, Credit Markets, Bailout, Lending, Loans, Federal Deposit Insurance Corp, Banks, Sheila Bair, Tarp, Business News

NEW YORK — The head of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. said Tuesday she's "very worried" that the nation's biggest banks aren't lending enou...

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CIT Bankruptcy Filed: US Will Likely Lose $2.3 Billion, Goldman Sachs Will Gain $1 Billion

AP / Huffington Post | By STEPHEN MANNING | Posted 11.01.2009 | Business

Read More: Short-Term Finance, Retailers, Geithner, Timothy Geithner, Goldman Sachs, Lending, Retail, CIT Bailout, Tim Geithner, Carl Ichan, Bailout, Finance, Lenders, Treasury, Cit, Banks, Wall Street, Ichan, Business News

WASHINGTON -- Lender CIT Group has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, in an effort to restructure its debt while trying to keep loans flowing...

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Summers: Banks Are "Unintended Beneficiaries" Of The Bailout

The Huffington Post | Ryan McCarthy | Posted 11.02.2009 | Business

Read More: Tarp, Wall Street, Bailout, Lending, Tim Geithner, Financial Crisis, Henry Paulson, Banks, Ben Bernanke, Obama, Credit Markets, Lawrence Summers, Fiscal Policy, Business News

For Lawrence Summers, the president's economic adviser, the financial crisis is kind of like a military battle. Buried in this Wall Street Journal abo...

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The Chamber of Commerce's Jobs Deception Campaign

Richard Trumka | Posted 10.15.2009 | Business

Read More: Mortgages, Labor, Wall Street, Lending, Consumer Financial Protection Agency, Afl-Cio, Chamber of Commerce, Capitalism, Taxpayers, Unions, Free Enterprise, Richard Trumka, Business News
Richard Trumka

Unions are popularly known as "the folks who brought you the weekend." In contrast, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce has the distinction of trying to take away a long and ugly list of benefits.

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International 'Microlender' Sets Sights On Helping Hard-Hit At Home (AUDIO)

Huffington Post | Victoria Fine | Posted 10.14.2009 | Impact

Read More: Kiva.org, Small Business, Microloan, Kiva, Lending, Impact News

You may know the Web site Kiva.org for its groundbreaking use of microloans, which allow Americans to loan as little as $25 at a time to small busines...

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WSJ: The 'Democratization Of Credit' Is Over

Wall Street Journal | S. MITRA KALITA | Posted 10.10.2009 | Business

Read More: Credit, Lending, Economy, Banks, Consumers, Business, Recession, Business News

The recession has forced a financial reckoning for Americans across the income spectrum. The pressure is especially acute for the low-income Americans...

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Colorado's Recovery Requires More Lending to Small Businesses

Jim Thomas | Posted 10.06.2009 | Denver

Read More: Recovery, Small Business, Arc, Lending, Jobs, Colorado, Sba, Recession, Unemployment, Colorado Economy, Economic Recovery, Job Creation, Denver News
Jim Thomas

We don't need to resolve a complex national debate on health care to help small companies. Easier access to cash will enable emerging companies to start hiring and our Colorado economy to start climbing.

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Toxic Assets: Government's New Programs Aim To Buy Buy Banks' Bad Assets, Help Home Buyers

Washington Post | Renae Merle and David Cho | Posted 11.28.2009 | Business

Read More: White House, Finance, Tax Credits, Banks, Troubled Assets, Housing and Economic Recovery Act, Mortgages, Fannie Mae, Recession, Obama, Real Estate, Bad Assets, Geithner, Billions, Freddie Mac, Toxic Assets, Housing, Treasury, Lending, Tarp, Business News

The Obama administration is close to rolling out two initiatives aimed at addressing lingering problems from the financial crisis: A long-delayed effo...

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Acorn Loses Bank Of America As Corporate Partner

Wall Street Journal | JAMES R. HAGERTY | Posted 11.27.2009 | Politics

Read More: JP Morgan Chase, Ethics Training, Foreclosure-Prevention, Banks, Acorn Housing, Lending, Wells Fargo, Michael Shea, Undercover Tapes, Tax Evasion, Census, Bank of America, Prostitution, Acorn, Foreclosure, Community Organizing, Politics News

Already facing the loss of federal government funding, the community-organizing group Acorn also has run afoul of one of its big corporate partners, B...

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Fed Held Back As Evidence Mounted On Subprime Loan Abuses

Washington Post | Binyamin Appelbaum | Posted 11.26.2009 | Business

Read More: Banks, Foreclosure, Bank Affiliates, Chicago, Regulate, Wells Fargo, Lending, Ben Bernanke, Alan Greenspan, Subprime Mortgages, Regulation, Business News

Under a policy quietly formalized in 1998, the Fed refused to police lenders' compliance with federal laws protecting borrowers, despite repeated urgi...

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Before Subprime There Was ACORN

Jerry Chautin | Posted 11.22.2009 | Politics

Read More: Foreclosures, Atlanta, Lending, Liberals, Independent Auditor, Progressives, Subprime, Public Trust, Underwriting, African-American, Acorn, Independents, Conservatives, Pimp, Georgia, Homeownership, Banks, Video Tape, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Bertha Lewis, Low Income, Community Organizations, Prostitute, Politics News
Jerry Chautin

Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, known as ACORN, is in the news again and conservative politicians are going for the jugular vein.

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Why Obama Won't Be Able to Reform Wall Street

Arianna Huffington | Posted 11.14.2009 | Business

Read More: Obama Wall Street Speech, Wall Street, Obama Financial Reform Speech, Barack Obama, Obama Financial Address, Credit, Lending, Credit Crisis, Main Street, Business News
Arianna Huffington

Obama won't be able to change the course our financial system is on unless he takes on the bankers and their hordes of lobbyists who continue to dictate policy in DC.

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Risk-taking Is Back For Banks 1 Year After Crisis

AP | By STEVENSON JACOBS | Posted 11.13.2009 | Business

Read More: Finance, Banks, Global Economy, Bailout, Regulation, Goldman Sachs, Risk, JP Morgan, Lehman Brothers, Sub-Prime, Lending, Personal Finance, Tarp, Crisis, Economy, Business News

NEW YORK (AP) -- A year after the financial system nearly collapsed, the nation's biggest banks are bigger and regaining their appetite for risk. Gol...

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Obama Must Tame Finance at G-20 Summit: Here's How

Ann Pettifor | Posted 11.09.2009 | Business

Read More: Debt, G20 Summit, Bank Lending, Deflation, Bailout, Financial Sector, Lending, Financiers, President Obama, Green New Deal, Aig, Monopolisation, Economic Recovery, Pittsburgh, g20, Business News
Ann Pettifor

We are in the middle of a monumental political conflict with very high stakes. On one side: politicians and regulators battling for the interests of middle-class Americans. On the other: the banks.

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Government Faces Tough Decisions About How To Stabilize Mortgage Market

washingtonpost.com | Zachary A. Goldfarb and Dina ElBoghdady | Posted 10.22.2009 | Business

Read More: Finance, Fha, Freddie Mac, Banks, Mortgages, The Fed, Fannie Mae, Federal Housing Authority, Lending, Housing Crisis, Economy, Refinancing, Business News

Only one lender of consequence remains: the federal government, which undertook one of its earliest and most dramatic rescues of the financial crisis ...

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Real Change: Turning Up the Heat on Non-Bank Lenders

Elizabeth Warren | Posted 10.19.2009 | Business

Read More: Lending Crisis, Mortgage Crisis, Regulation, Banks, Subprime Mortgages, Non-Bank Lenders, Lending, Elizabeth Warren, Cfpa, Business News
Elizabeth Warren

The big banks are storming Washington, determined to kill the Consumer Financial Protection Agency. But there is an even bigger change in the wind: regulating the non-banks.

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Lending: Banks Worry about SBA's Guaranty

Jerry Chautin | Posted 09.28.2009 | Business

Read More: Inspector General, Small Business, Small Business Administration, Lenders, Lending, Loans, Banks, Sba, Loan Programs, Recovery Act, Arc Loans, Patriot Express, Arc, Business News
Jerry Chautin

SBA's loan programs are less effective because lenders fear may find a reason not to honor its guaranty.

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Federal Small Businesses Loan Stalls As Banks Balk

nytimes.com | ROBB MANDELBAUM | Posted 09.13.2009 | Business

Read More: Small Business Loans, American Banking Association, Small Business Administration, Lending, Entrerepenurs, Business News

Small-business owners hoping for some assistance of the sort given to the nation's biggest banks applauded when the Small Business Administration unve...

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Ownership Is So Last Century: From Owners/Consumers to Borrowers/Lenders

Starre Vartan | Posted 07.09.2009 | Green

Read More: Hertz, Consumers, Car Sharing, Lending, Borrowing, Seventh Generation, Burlington-Vermont, Green News
Starre Vartan

When I get to thinking about it, the only things I want to own outright are things I want to pass along to another generation, that have personal meaning to me. Who needs the rest?

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Homeowner, Don't Let the Wolf in Your Door!

Iris Martin | Posted 05.04.2009 | Business

Read More: Mortgage, Lending, Homeowner, Foreclosure, Mortgage Wars, Nking Crisis, Lenders, Loans, Business News
Iris Martin

Foreclosure firms are so used to actions just going through unopposed. Now people are paying attention and pointing out the gaps.

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Obama To Bankers: Lend More, Spend Less

Washington Post | Binyamin Appelbaum and Michael A. Fletcher | Posted 04.28.2009 | Business

Read More: Banks, Bankers, Ceos, Lending, Barack Obama, Bank CEOs, Business News

Lend more. Spend less. That was President Obama's message yesterday during a meeting at the White House with the chief executives of the nation's lar...

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