Everyone knows that China holds much of our government debt. While that might sound ominous, the reality is that China needs the U.S. economy to be successful if it wants to keep getting paid on their investment. It’s not like China can simply take over our federal government if we don’t pay them. Our economy […]
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The Great Recession has apparently changed the way individual Americans view investing. Buying stocks is no longer seen as safe for long or short-term investment and trading is way down. Credit Suisse Trading Strategy reports that daily trading in American stocks continues to fall and is down almost 50% from the peak in 2008. The
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Today President Obama is scheduled to sign the JOBS Act, legislation that has received both enthusiastic support from the business community and scorn from regulators and consumer organizations. So what is the reality? Well, the JOBS Act is deserving of both praise and scorn. First the praise. Contained in the Act is a provision for
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The Affordable Care Act turns 2 today (read my op.ed here) while we all wait for the Supreme Court hearing on the constitutionality of the individual mandate to start next week. More on that on Monday. Yesterday was a big and surprising victory in the U.S. Senate. The CROWDFUND Act that we, the American Sustainable
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Access to Capital vote on TuesdayTell Graham and DeMint to do it the right way The U.S. Senate will vote tomorrow (March 20th) on legislation to create another path for small businesses to access capital. The Small Business Chamber has supported the idea of allowing limited investments in small businesses with relatively low caps on
This week I’m off to DC to join David Levine, co-founder and director of the American Sustainable Business Council, in a media tour for the ASBC (I serve as vice-chair of the organization). We will be doing a few other things including have discussions with the Americans for Financial Reform and hopefully some Congressional staff
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January 26, 2012 Opinion polling released today shows 90 percent of small business owners believe access to credit is a problem and that loans are harder to get now than four years ago; majority support key provisions in president’s American Jobs Act Washington DC, Jan. 26, 2012 – Opinion polling released today shows 90 percent
Here we are in a new year and there are signs of hope for access to capital for small businesses…unless you are a customer with Bank of America. First the good news. The Thomson Reuters/PayNet Small Business Lending Index showed that in November lending to small business hit its highest level in nearly four years.Â
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The Washington PostDecember 23, 2011  By Matt Bauer  “While we are focused on internal industry concerns such as telecom consolidation and collusion and those that would dismantle net neutrality, our top concern as a company in 2012 is helping to lead the charge and get much more support to small, independently owned businesses
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Los Angeles TimesDecember 14, 2011 California small businesses can’t get loans California’s small businesses can’t get the credit they need to expand and hire people. Forty-four percent of almost 2,000 owners queried said they couldn’t access resources needed to grow their operations, said a report released Wednesday by the Graziadio School of Business and Management
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