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We Need New Banks

John K. Delaney | Posted 11.18.2009 | Business


John K. Delaney

The Obama Administration should charter 100 new special "Business Banking Charters," to aggressively participate in lending to small- to mid-sized companies.

50 Best Places To Start A Small Business

FORTUNE Small Business | Posted 10.19.2009 | Business


Fortune Small Business ranks the 50 best places to start a small business in the U.S. ...

Where Will the Jobs Come From?

John K. Delaney | Posted 10.02.2009 | Business


John K. Delaney

To be an employed nation we have to return to our roots and embrace, encourage and reward entrepreneurs and small businesses.

Start-Ups: Business Creating Takes Sharp Drop During Recession

wsj.com | CARI TUNA | Posted 09.28.2009 | Business


New companies will be crucial to the strength of any economic recovery. Businesses in their first 90 days of life accounted for 14% of hiring in the U...

Banks Don't Differentiate Between Successful Business and Suffering Industries

Grant Cardone | Posted 10.17.2009 | Business


Grant Cardone

Small businesses that depend on borrowed money to grow are unable access credit because banks are unable to see the difference between profitable companies and damaged industries.

Lending: Banks Worry about SBA's Guaranty

Jerry Chautin | Posted 09.28.2009 | Business


Jerry Chautin

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

Obama Spouts Pro Small Business Rhetoric, But Gives Small Business Billions to Corporate Giants

Lloyd Chapman | Posted 09.24.2009 | Business


Lloyd Chapman

When you look closely at Obama's policies towards small businesses you start to think its just a matter of time before he loads small business owners into crowded train cars headed for prison camps.

Obama Administration Fabricates Small Business Contracting Data

Lloyd Chapman | Posted 09.21.2009 | Business


Lloyd Chapman

Under Obama, the same Fortune 500 firms that were allowed to receive small business contracts during the Bush Administration continue to receive federal small business contracts.

Obama White House Doesn't Understand American Interest vs. Corporate Interest

Steve Clemons | Posted 09.13.2009 | Politics


Steve Clemons

The Obama administration's approach to trying to move the economy forward demonstrates a fundamental misunderstanding about how corporate behavior works.

Federal Small Businesses Loan Stalls As Banks Balk

nytimes.com | ROBB MANDELBAUM | Posted 09.13.2009 | Business


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

Mr. President: Turbodog is My Rose Garden Beer Choice

Jerry Chautin | Posted 09.03.2009 | Business


Jerry Chautin

Turbodog creates a pleasant stimulant-sensation at the back of my throat that metaphorically represents the stimulus needed by the small-business community.

Small Businesses Short Changed on Stimulus Funds

Chris Gunn | Posted 08.28.2009 | Business


Chris Gunn

When small businesses thrive, our economy grows. Yet today, millions of these businesses are being threatened by the very plan that was supposedly intended to help them.

Small Business Bailout Considered By Obama Admin.

washingtonpost.com | David Cho | Posted 08.10.2009 | Business


The Obama administration is developing an initiative to take money from the $700 billion program for the banking system and make it available to milli...

U.S. Hispanic Chamber of Commerce Challenged to Put Up or Shut Up on Contracting Abuses

Lloyd Chapman | Posted 08.10.2009 | Politics


Lloyd Chapman

I have talked to hundreds of Hispanic business owners and Hispanic chambers of commerce across the country that want nothing to do with the USHCC.

The Government Hates Small Business

Nelson Davis | Posted 07.31.2009 | Business


Nelson Davis

Despite the nice words and flowery press releases extolling the virtues and value of small business owners, I don't see the true love and understanding that the small business community deserves.

Local Real Estate Opportunities Open up Through Green Financing

Jonathan A. Schein | Posted 07.16.2009 | Business


Jonathan A. Schein

The Small Business Admistration has amended its existing 504 loan program, which was originally created to encourage small- to medium-sized business o...

The Faux MB Environmental Scandal That Wasn't

Josh Dorner | Posted 06.15.2009 | Green


Josh Dorner

Rather than being some shadowy "White House document" objecting to those overzealous greens at the EPA, it could have been written by almost anyone within the vast federal bureaucracy.

8 Hard Truths About Stimulating Small Business

Tim Berry | Posted 04.18.2009 | Business


Tim Berry

There are something like 25 million small businesses and 20 million of them have no employees. How does the government help them?

Wealth Without Wall Street

Don McNay | Posted 03.12.2009 | Business


Don McNay

There has been a long and irreversible trend toward small, entrepreneurial businesses, located far from money centers. Instead, Washington keeps throwing money at these "too big to fail" money losers.

Is President Obama Really Listening? Small Business Inc. Wants to Know

George Cloutier | Posted 03.05.2009 | Business


George Cloutier

$25 billion in loans to the Small Business Administration could mean more than 2 million jobs, immediately. This is not some small interest group. This is the backbone of our economy.

Bush May have Cheated Small Businesses Out of a Trillion Dollars in Contracts

Lloyd Chapman | Posted 02.23.2009 | Business


Lloyd Chapman

There is no way to know exactly how many billions of dollars George W. Bush cheated American small businesses out of during his eight years in office....

Lloyd Chapman: ASBL Predicts Obama Will Favor Venture Capitalists Over Small Businesses

Chris Gunn | Posted 01.30.2009 | Business


Chris Gunn

Today, The American Small Business League released the following video via YouTube regarding the ASBL's prediction that with the help of senior democr...

What's Happening at the SBA? Small Businesses Don't Know

Susan Wilson Solovic | Posted 01.23.2009 | Business


Susan Wilson Solovic

The Small Business Administration was founded to strengthen the overall economy by helping small businesses start and grow. Does the SBA actually do what it's supposed to do?

Obama Appoints Venture Capital Executive to Head Small Business Administration

Lloyd Chapman | Posted 01.23.2009 | Business


Lloyd Chapman

President-elect Barack Obama has nominated Karen Gordon Mills as Administrator of the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA). Mills is president of...

Obama Labor Secretary, Transportation Secretary Announcements

AP | PHILIP ELLIOTT | Posted 01.19.2009 | Business


CHICAGO — Completing his Cabinet a month before taking office, President-elect Barack Obama named officials to oversee transportation, labor, tr...