Micro-Friendly Lending Bill Clears House

We’re ending April on a spastic note: House Democrats brought one of those lending bills to the floor and found lots of support from their colleagues across the aisle but the Bush Administration is already complaining about the measure; new research from Advocacy finds that households owning a single small business don’t improve their financial [...]

Differing perspectives on the economy

Wow.
For a fascinating look at two very distinct ways of looking at the U.S. economy, take a look at this.
Pay particular attention to the comments.
You have a few people coming in parroting all the numbers that “prove” that the economy is doing very, very well.
Then you have a series of people who say, rightly, that [...]

Hey! Pay attention to us!

According to Gallup, a sizable majority of Americans (68%) believe the federal government pays too little attention to small business owners.
That puts us in the middle of a rather interesting group of folks being ignored by the government when we should be, a group that includes veterans (81%), the poor (77%) and senior citizens (66%).
At [...]

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