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Obama Will Allow Fortune 500 Firms to Receive Federal Small Business Contracts

Lloyd Chapman | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
Lloyd Chapman

Petaluma, Calif. - President-elect Barack Obama has dropped a campaign promise to end Bush Administration policies that have allowed Fortune 500 firms...

62,000 Business Could Fail In 2009

247wallst.com | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business

Cutting jobs is one thing. Going out of business is another. As it becomes clear that millions of jobs will be lost by companies which are weak but wi...

TARP Not Easing Lending

Houston Chronicle | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business

Kurt Lieber feels as if he's had the TARP pulled out from under him. As the owner of Werther International, a Houston company that sells air compre...

Obama Struggles To Explain Drop of Windfall Profits Tax for Oil and Gas Industry

Lloyd Chapman | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Lloyd Chapman

The Obama camp's explanation as to why the windfall profits tax has been dropped is inconsistent with the facts and the actual series of events.

Obama Drops Campaign Promise to End Contracting Abuses

Lloyd Chapman | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
Lloyd Chapman

The surprisingly low priority Obama has given small business issues on his websites is a clear indication this is not going to be a pro small business administration.

Forbes: Let the Small Business Administration work

Lloyd Chapman | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
Lloyd Chapman

The following article is a commentary from Congressman Michael P. Forbes ( 1995-2001), which ran in the Austin American Statesman on December 1, 2008....

Small Business Posts Largest Job Decline in Seven Years

Tim Berry | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
Tim Berry

Especially since I posted two months ago the "silver lining" news about small business still hiring in September, and then last month about small business jobs dropping in October, seems like this was probably inevitable.

ASBL States, "Obama Drops Windfall Profits Tax for Oil and Gas Industry"

Chris Gunn | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
Chris Gunn

The American Small Business League (ASBL) released the following video via YouTube this morning.

Obama Drops Windfall Profits Tax for Oil and Gas Industry

Lloyd Chapman | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Lloyd Chapman

President-elect Obama has removed any reference of his promise to implement a windfall profits tax on the oil and gas industry from the Obama-Biden Transition Team website.

Water: A Business Philosophy for Success in Hard Times

Peter Schwartz | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
Peter Schwartz

Wall Street's troubles have not only filtered down to Main Street. They have crushed Main Street. With cash flow and credit lines drier than...

Don't get crushed at the mall - Create Jobs

Jack Hidary | Posted 05.25.2011 | Style
Jack Hidary

Think your are helping the economy by buying some holiday gifts? Instead of giving more stuff to your relatives and friends that they don't need, d...

Obama: Help Wanted for Stimulus in Urban Areas

Cheryle Jackson | Posted 05.25.2011 | Chicago
Cheryle Jackson

Though Obama's plan feels right on the surface, for me it raises two questions: "Which Main Streets?" and "Who gets those jobs?"

Corporate Giants Force Obama to Drop Campaign Promises

Lloyd Chapman | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
Lloyd Chapman

During the 2008 presidential election cycle, President-elect Barack Obama made two key campaign promises which would have directed billions of dollars...

Obama's Change.gov Website Drops Small Business Promise

Lloyd Chapman | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
Lloyd Chapman

The Department of Interior Office of Inspector General released a report in July that found they had awarded millions of dollars in government small business contracts to Fortune 500 firms.

Democrats Can Jump Start Recovery By Reinvesting in SBA

Michael P. Forbes | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
Michael P. Forbes

Federal programs already exist that, with renewed interest and only a modest investment, could help lead us out of our worst recession in 80 years.

Bush Speaks On The Financial Crisis

AP | BEN FELLER | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home

NEW YORK — President George W. Bush fervently defended U.S.-style free enterprise Thursday as the cure for the world's financial chaos, not the ...

Avoiding Financial Trauma Stress Disorder

Mark Silver | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
Mark Silver

It was a fantasy-land wish to see the election victory Obama and a more progressive agenda fill the global economy with enough confidence to stop the ...

Hyde Park Small Businesses Support Obama (PHOTO SLIDESHOW)

Rebecca Shapiro | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home
Rebecca Shapiro

From selling T shirts to Indian food , stores along 53rd street in downtown Hyde Park show support for Presidential candidate, Barack Obama. Hyde Par...

Washington Post Story Minimizes Government Contracting Scandal - McCain and Obama Ignore It

Lloyd Chapman | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
Lloyd Chapman

A recent Washington Post story about the diversion of billions in government small business contracts to Fortune 500 firms looks more like it was writ...

Senator McCain, Regulated Capitalism is Not Socialism

Leo Hindery, Jr. | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Leo Hindery, Jr.

Using the pejorative word "socialism" to describe an honorable progressive income tax is shameful in these difficult times -- and it is also just plain wrong.

Voting for Small Business

Tim Berry | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
Tim Berry

I recently saw an analysis of why small business owners should vote for McCain. It was done by a man I respect, a journalist with pull in the small business world. And that disturbs me for several reasons.

What is the One Question Wolf Blitzer Can Ask Obama He Hasn't Answered Already?

Lloyd Chapman | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
Lloyd Chapman

This Friday CNN's Wolf Blitzer will interview Senator Barack Obama (D - IL). CNN is accepting questions from the public. In nearly two years of campai...

SBA Attempts to Minimize Diversion of Billions In Small Business Contracts to Corporate Giants

Chris Gunn | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
Chris Gunn

The American Small Business League dropped the following press release this morning. In it the league points to the Small Business Administration's e...

Washington Post Finds Bush Cheated Small Businesses Out of Over Half a Trillion Dollars in Contracts

Lloyd Chapman | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
Lloyd Chapman

During the eight years of the Bush Administration, approximately $448 billion in federal small business contracts have been diverted to Fortune 500 firms and other large businesses.

Bush Dismantles Economic Programs for Small Business as Economy Continues Downward Spiral

Lloyd Chapman | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
Lloyd Chapman

Ninety-eight percent of all companies in the United States have less than 100 employees. Twenty-seven million firms fall into the category of small bu...