The Huffington Post February 1, 2013 By John Arensmeyer The latest jobs data shows small businesses are off to a running start in the job creation department this year, proving entrepreneurs are doing more than ever to lift post-recession employment. But it’s also true that small firms aren’t immune to the lingering effects […]
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Yesterday’s JPMorgan shareholders meeting was “pretty tense”, according to Lisa Lindsley who attended the meeting in Tampa. Lindsley is the director of capital strategies at the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees pension plan. In a radio interview with me yesterday Lindsley said that it was obvious that the JPMorgan people clearly wanted
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It’s hard to believe that just over two years ago I spoke at a press conference at the U.S. Capitol along with Senators Dick Durbin, Jack Reed and Michael Bennet calling for the Senate to pass financial reform legislation to protect small businesses and the public from Wall Street causing another Great Recession. The passage
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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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The U.S. stock market is in crisis. Small investors continue to get out of stocks. Read about the problem and one possible explanation in the stories below. Tomorrow I’ll talk about an alternative for small investors. New York TimesMay 7, 2012Stock Trading Is Still Falling After ’08 CrisisBy NATHANIEL POPPER Even though American stocks have
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The story below is must read for all, especially those who think financial reform (Dodd-Frank) went too far. To all those in Congress who want to repeal Dodd-Frank, here’s the story about the big banks you are defending and why Dodd-Frank didn’t go far enough. Bloomberg11-28-11 Secret Fed Loans Gave Banks $13 Billion By Bob
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This week the U.S. House is expected to start voting on legislation to turn back regulations and make it nearly impossible for federal agencies to develop new regulations in the future. If that happens, Congress might as well just stop passing any new laws because the rules for implementing them will never be developed. One
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