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New Obama Plan Aims to Help Small Business
President Obama and Treasury Secretary Geithner announced plans to help support small business owners on Monday at a press conference held at the White House. The administration has taken some criticism for laying out a budget which could increase taxes for some small business owners, and is now rolling out a plan that would help small business.
The President’s plan would help to thaw the tightened credit markets for small business owners by temporarily guaranteeing up to 90% of the loans that are made through the SBA’s 7(a) loan program. The plan would also authorize the Treasury Department to buy up to $15 billion securities backed by Small Business Administration loans.
“As a bank we have not been able to sell the guaranteed portions of the loans in the secondary market,” said Cynthia Blankenship, vice chairman of Bank of the West in Grapevine, Texas, and chairman of the Independent Community…
The Market’s 10 Best Stocks Revealed
As investors, we want the best stocks for our portfolios.
That’s why, at the end of each year, I find myself looking back. I want to know the names of the best stocks of the past decade, and I want to know what we can learn from them.
What’s incredible is that the market’s 10 best stocks teach….
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Credit Rating Fiasco.
There’s plenty of blame to go around for the ongoing credit crisis, and a House panel investigating the meltdown Wednesday cast much of it on credit ratings agencies like Standard & Poor’s for giving good-as-gold ratings to securities backed by subprime mortgage loans.
Internal company documents revealed by a House investigative panel show that company executives were well aware that there was little basis for giving AAA ratings to thousands of increasingly complex mortgage-related securities but that the companies often vouched for them anyway…
Managing Inventory for Profitability
You don’t have to pay an arm and a leg to gain control of stock levels, pricing and cash flow. Any business that manages inventory lives and dies by stock levels. Knowing how much is on hand is important and…
Outgrowing Your Bank
When your business growth exceeds your loan limit, it may be time to find a bigger lender. If so, take the time to explore all your options. At a previous job, I remember looking through customer files and stumbling upon…
