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Charles M Cooper
Charles M Cooper

$350 Billion in the Hole and Record Unemployment: Time for Something Different

When we were being sold on bailing out the financial sector, we were told that it was necessary to save jobs, homes, investments, businesses. Well, the first half of the initial $700 billion has been spent, stocks have been trending down and the unemployment rate is higher now than it has been in decades. Now a congressman from Texas has a radical idea: Take the other $350 billion and use it to finance a two-month tax holiday for all Americans. Now that’s what I call progressive!


Tags: small business, taxes, tax holiday, congress, reid, pelosi, gohmert, bailout, paulson, bernanke

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Charles M Cooper
Charles M Cooper

Small Business Brief for 12/01

Important stories and highlights from the world of business. Today: Bush apologizes for the economy, other rescue options are in the cards, Obama wants to spend another half-trillion to fix the economy, tax changes, handling email mistakes and much more.


Tags: small business, obama, economy, recession, depression, congress, democrats, marketing, paulson, fed, bernanke, bailout, email, advertisements, taxes, ada

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Charles M Cooper
Charles M Cooper

Small Business Brief for 11/18

Important stories and highlights from the world of business. Today: What Obama's promises of change really mean to small businesses, more fighting over the bailout, the possibility of tax cuts, a blog-related lawsuit, guns at work and much more.


Tags: small business, obama, change, paulson, bailout, bernanke, tax cuts, wholesale prices, economy, credit, fed, blog, lawsuit, supreme court, vexatious litigant, guns, e-verify, human asset, competition, customers

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Charles M Cooper
Charles M Cooper

Small Business Brief for 10/30

Important stories and highlights from the world of business. Today: issues in human resources, the rebirth of small retailing in America, start-up advise from Kurt Cobain, questions of pension relief, credit problems, the GOP stimulus proposal and much more.


Tags: small business, human resources, small retailers, start-up, kurt cobain, pensions, credit, gop economic stimulus, bernanke, obama, mccain, eco-friendly business, customer-centric business

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Charles M Cooper
Charles M Cooper

The Bailout Passes! Now What?

OK folks, we asked for it. The Monster Wall Street Bailout has passed! The Dow rallied, then it fell, now what? More to the point, what has this mess taught us?


Tags: small business, congress, mortage crisis, paulson, bernanke, 1929

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Charles M Cooper
Charles M Cooper

The 2008 $700 Billion Bailout: It Seems We Have Been Here Before

Take a look at the 1929 stock market crash and the Savings and Loan crisis in the 1980s and you will find some really eerie similarities to what we are facing today.


Tags: small business, congress, mortage crisis, paulson, bernanke, 1929

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