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Romney-Ryan’s promise of austerity for small businesses

With Congressman Paul Ryan on the ticket with Mitt Romney, it is clear that a Romney-Ryan administration would choose eliminating the federal deficit over creating jobs as their economic plan.  So what does this mean for small businesses if $6 trillion was cut from federal spending over the next 10 years as proposed by Mr. […]

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Zuccotti Park

I had the opportunity to visit Zuccotti Park in Lower Manhattan last Thursday.  No, I didn’t see Jackson Brown play for the Occupy Wall Street protestors and on-lookers.  But I did meet Jesse La Greca who has become a media voice for the movement.  This marks my fourth visit to an Occupy site including ours

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We didn’t vote for this

The opinion editorial below ran on the Huffington Post and The Hill yesterday.————————————————————————————————- We Didn’t Vote for This by Frank Knapp, Jr. Whether Americans voted for Republicans or Democrats in the mid-term election, one thing is clear: Voters were demanding that Congress focus intensively on job creation on Main Street — not lobbyists and campaign

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Triple the impact of your holiday dollar$

With the holiday season fast approaching and customers getting ready to open up their wallets, this is really the time to remember your SC locally-owned small businesses. Please join us in our “BuySC” nonprofit action campaign. Surveys continue to show that communities with programs encouraging buying from locally-owned businesses improve the sales for those businesses

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Wake up call for business owners — big and small

Very interesting piece by financial columnist James Surowiecki, excerpted from The New Yorker: ILLUSTRATION: CHRISTOPH NIEMANN  (reposted with respect from The New Yorker) “In the nineteen-eighties, a new kind of chain store came to dominate American shopping: the “category killer.” These stores killed off all competition in a category by stocking a near-endless variety of

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