Is small business lending all its cracked up to be?

(Photo by ‘Dominic’s pics’, via Flickr.)
Yesterday, I spent some time sitting in on a webcast of a House Financial Services Committee hearing on the exciting subject of a piece of proposed legislation that would do still more to encourage banks to lend to small businesses.
I’ll probably have more to say about that hearing in my [...]

[Friday Musical Interlude] Glimpses of a future for human scale

One of the biggest differences between the United States and everyplace else is … well … bigness.
Certainly, when visiting Europe, it is striking that the landscape is dominated by small shops housed in small buildings lining small streets dotted with small cars. There was a lot of walking and bike riding because, evidently, nothing was [...]

Microbusiness in pursuit of happiness

(Photo by Annie Mole, via Flickr)
If you were to judge the American people by the pronouncements of their leaders, you might be forgiven for coming to the conclusion that we are a shallow, materialistic bunch.
And, in justice to our nation’s leaders, many of us are. Because we live in an economy that is dependent (or [...]

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