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Businesses are big winners in the economic stimulus package signed into law earlier this year. They may not be getting rebate checks, but they are getting showered with $45 billion in tax breaks designed to spur them on to purchase more equipment, cars and other assets sooner rather than later. Congress boosted the limit on first-year expensin Read More

The turbulent economy is exposing yet another type of credit where bankers let their guard down: small-business loans. Missed payments and losses on small-business loans are surging at banks throughout the country that were so eager to pad their profits that they essentially threw typical underwriting methods out the window. Some lenders doled Read More

Be wary if some of your clients are getting slow on payments. More businesses filed for bankruptcy in April, 2008, than in any month since new bankruptcy laws took effect in 2005, according to a company that tracks federal court filings. The numbers show a 49% increase in commercial bankruptcies over last year, with an average of 235 daily fil Read More

Every small business owner should understand the inter-relationship between revenues, assets, and cash flow. The saying, “cash is king” means everything to a successful business owner and can often make the difference between a business thriving or dying. Read More

These days, small-business owners like Metzger have to be creative about getting the money to start and expand their companies. Many are turning to nontraditional sources, such as credit unions. Increasing numbers are going to online lending sites that cut out the traditional bank middleman and to factoring companies, which buy companies' future Read More

The thought of being your own boss can sound pretty wonderful to someone tired of working 50 to 60 hours a week to make money for some impersonal corporation. And there is probably no better way to be self-employed than by buying a franchise and taking advantage of all that franchising has to offer: a tried and proven business model, initial and c Read More

The financial services companies would like you to know that April is Financial Literacy Month. What are you reading? Read More

Scammers are taking advantage of the credit crunch to entice small business owners with fake loans. Here's how to identify the warning signs. Read More

Why is 91% of the population worried about inflation while the fed assures us that everything is under control? There are several possibilities: The first is that we're all paranoid. We simply need reassurance from the authorities: Inflation rates are fine, nothing to see here, move along quietly. The second is that the Fed's insistence on f Read More