On Capitol Hill, I participated in a legislative effort, along with several other thoughtful citizens, to work to democratize small business finance, and as luck would have it we were successful.
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The talks may well be seen as the climax of weeks of discussion between the banks and ministers to reach some kind of repair of their uneasy relationship - although it is looking increasingly unlikely that a deal on bonuses and small business finance will be struck before Christmas.
Personal borrowing plays a key role in how many small business people finance their companies.
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Today's initiative to support the small business and consumer finance market is similarly aimed at increasing the availability of affordable lending.
Making it easy for foreign investors to finance American small business is bi-partisan change that everyone should be able to agree on.
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The standard ggeh holds a surplus of value or worth, called reputation that ultimately functions to finance the small business ventures of the Korean members.
By providing liquidity to issuers of consumer asset backed paper, the Federal Reserve facility will enable a broad range of institutions to step up their lending, enabling borrowers to have access to lower cost consumer finance and small business loans.
Teruaki Oda of the state-owned Japan Finance Corporation for Small Business says that many small firms are beginning to develop products on their own.
If so, then why assume equity markets wouldn't throw up new business models to finance small businesses and credit-worthy consumers if government-insured deposits were no longer available at all to underwrite such risks?
Share of Small Business Owners Borrowing Against Home Equity to Finance Their Businesses, 2000-2007.
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Every small business owner knows that the laws of finance will allow negative cash to be augmented with debt as a temporary means to an end, but not as a long-term way of life.
For those who do own a small business, it's been difficult to finance inventories and make payroll, or expand if things are going well.
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Countless Marines I know had put off careers in business, finance and law to play small, almost anonymous parts in tedious and dangerous places.
We note low inventories, low real interest rates, rational consumer resilience, high levels of bank cash (since the write-downs are generally non-cash accounting entries), small business flexibility and reasonable output gains apart from housing, autos and finance.
But I think we need to sit down and say what can we do to actually drive this forward and open it up to small businesses and give them the ability to get finance and grow the business.
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The founder of Serenity Financial Consulting in Milwaukee, he has a wide-ranging expertise in personal finance, from 401(k) strategies to starting a small business.
These foreign investments in turn help to finance a variety of products essential to economic growth, such as small business loans and home mortgages.
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Wednesday's report drew sharp comment from Dean Zerbe, an AlliantGroup national managing director and former Senate Finance Committee Republican tax counsel who has been campaigning for a new small business taxpayer " bill of rights, " which would force the IRS to make an individual determination of the necessity of a lien, weighing the economic impact on the individual or business of a lien.
While online pawning continues to be a relatively new option for business customers, a growing number of small businesses are finding it to be a good way to finance their short-term financing needs.
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They each had various careers in finance, real estate and technology, but they always kept an eye on the underserved small-business factoring market.
Amos Hostetter graduated from Harvard Business School in 1961 and convinced his employer, Boston-based Cambridge Capital, to finance a small cable television system in rural New Jersey.
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