[Guest Post] Five Tips to Increase Your Firm’s Chance of Getting a Small Business Bank Loan

I don’t do this very often but, given the credit situation for small businesses, I thought it would be a good idea to publish this article from American Bankers Association VP Robert C. Seiwert. Prior to joining the ABA, Mr. Seiwert was a banker for over 30 years, serving as President and CEO of a [...]

Recession help and info from the SBA

Just so you know, the folks at the SBA aren’t sitting around twiddling their thumbs waiting for January 19th (or whenever the Senate gets around to confirming Ms. Mills), nor are they so preoccupied with the ongoing transition that they have forgotten about you.
In proof of which, the agency has just announced its first web [...]

TGIF and clouds and silver linings and crunching credit

New York Times quote of the day: “The situation is like that movie trailer where a guy with a deep, scary voice says, ‘In a world where credit markets are frozen, where banks refuse to lend to each other at any price, only one man, with one plan can save us,’ “ said Jared Bernstein, [...]

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