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Charles M Cooper
Charles M Cooper

Happy New Year from America's Best Companies

Everyone here at ABC wishes you and yours all the best in the coming year. May your businesses prosper in 2009 and beyond. We will resume the ABC Small Business Brief on Monday, January 5th, 2009. So, until then, Happy New Year! Today: Pension funding relief and raises to the minimum wage, outsourcing and much more.


Tags: small business, bush, economy, email, pensions, minimum wage, vacations, hiring, online marketing, fear-based marketing

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Charles M Cooper
Charles M Cooper

Clinton Insider Gets Commodities Post, Automakers Get $17.4 Billion

Important stories and highlights from the world of business. Today: Obama picks former Clinton official to regulate commodities, Bush offers carmakers a bailout of their own, things to do now to take the sting out of tax day and much more.


Tags: small business, obama, bush, paulson, gensler, treasury, commodities, regulation, automakers, bailout, taxes, tarp, marketing, haggling, goal-setting, sexual harassment, holiday party, irs, healthcare, yellow pages, local search, customer relations, digital marketing

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Charles M Cooper
Charles M Cooper

Small Business Brief for 11/24

Important stories and highlights from the world of business. Today: A new economic team takes over, more bailout talk, business partnerships and much more.


Tags: small business, obama, bush, bailout, paulson, partnership, marketing, fed, email, search marketing

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Charles M Cooper
Charles M Cooper

Small Business Brief for 11/21

Important stories and highlights from the world of business. Today: Bush unveils action plan for global financial crisis, union confidence over card check, banks and lending, credit issues, redefining the independent contractor and much more.


Tags: small business, bush, obama, financial crisis, unions, card check, banks, credit, cash flow, retail, independent contractor, search engines, search, business loans, holiday sales

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Charles M Cooper
Charles M Cooper

Small Business Brief for 11/20

Important stories and highlights from the world of business. Today: Treasury testimony before the House Small Business Committee, Oil hits a 3-year low, an uptick in trade with China for small businesses and much more.


Tags: small business, treasury, house, small business committee, ramanathan, kroszner, fed, bush, economy, sba

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Charles M Cooper
Charles M Cooper

Small Business Brief for 11/17

Important stories and highlights from the world of business. Today: Health reform, the auto industry bailout, small business stimulus, economic issues, FMLA news, employee standards and much more.


Tags: small business, obama, bush, health reform, auto industry bailout, small business stimulus, economic issues, economy, fmla news, employee standards, productivity, flexibility, marketing

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Charles M Cooper
Charles M Cooper

Small Business Brief for 11/14

Important stories and highlights from the world of business. Today: Bush talks up free market economics, Obama pushes to double the automaker bailout, SBA works to increase loan capital, small business proves to be the greatest innovative force in the economy and much more.


Tags: small business, bush, obama, paulson, capitalism, automakers, bailout, sba, taxes, patents, innovation, treasury department, consumer spending, unemployment, family leave, midnight rules, 401(k), barter

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Charles M Cooper
Charles M Cooper

Energy Prices: A Lesson in Supply and Demand

Nancy Pelosi asked some "Drill Here, Drill Now" demonstrators if she could drill their brains. It was a stupid remark but it shows either a fundamental disregard for the realities of the market, or a fundamental ignorance of them. Here are the facts, decide for yourselves.


Tags: small business, oil prices, nancy pelosi, can we drill your brains, congress, bush

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