[Podcast] Advocacy Chief Counsel Nominee Remains in Limbo

Sometimes, Washington still has the power to surprise me.
Take this debacle with the nomination of Dr. Winslow Sargeant. Personally, given that it is not required by statute for the Chief Counsel of the SBA Office of Advocacy to be a lawyer, Senator Olympia Snowe’s intransigence about it strikes me as being a bit unreasonable … [...]

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 [...]

Another scam alert, this time from the SBA

One of the things that happens when the economy begins to suck is that all the scam artists crawl out of the woodwork like roaches. So, here’s another warning for you from the SBA:
The U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) is warning small businesses to use caution if they are contacted by firms offering to help [...]

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