Small Business Share of All Commercial Loans by Size of Financial Institution, 2009
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The latest report from TARP Inspector General Neil Barofsky warns, “Even if TARP saved our financial system from driving off a cliff back in 2008,...
By exempting internet retailers like Amazon.com from collecting sales taxes, lawmakers provide a substantial financial incentive for people to bypass local businesses and shop online...
As we start down the path of breaking up with the big banks and defending our own economic interests and that of our communities, we...
More holiday shoppers deliberately sought out locally owned businesses this year, according to a national survey of more than 1,800 independent businesses.… Read More
Hearings held to investigate the crash of 1929 led to the passage of the Glass-Steagall Act, which fundamentally restructured the banking industry. Can the FCIC...
Despite growing public support, local businesses are likely to remain on the economic margins without fundamental changes in public policy. In this lecture, delivered at...
Big-Box Swindle was named one of the top ten business books of the year by Booklist and described by Bill McKibben as “the ultimate account...
A survey of over 100 independent retailers in New England has found that almost all would like to source more of their inventory from local...
Current providers won’t encourage the competition necessary to improve service and cut costs. Last January, as the economy spiraled downward, Time Warner did what no...
In the next few weeks this country will make two decisions of great consequence: Will we send additional troops to Afghanistan? Will we reform our...
In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, many of New Orleans’ locally owned businesses reopened within days of the floodwaters subsiding, while national chains kept their...
Today, in the New York Times small business blog, Robb Mandelbaum examines the membership of the National Federation of Independent Businesses has plummeted and takes...
So far, the public debate about cars and climate change has been dominated by fuel economy. But driving has been growing at such a rapid...