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Charles C

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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Posted: 12/1/2008 | Comments Comments (0) | Print Print Article

Charles
Charles C

Finally! Something Good from Sarbanes-Oxley

It is one thing to destroy your own company, but quite another to destroy your company, cripple your industry and then fly in your company private jet to wheedle taxpayer money out of Congress so you can keep on with your wasteful ways. Pity, but there will likely be a bailout, but the least Congress can do is throw the Sarbanes-Oxley book at them.


Tags: small business, gm, ford, chrysler, automakers, bailout, congress

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Posted: 11/19/2008 | Comments Comments (0) | Print Print Article

Charles
Charles C

The Employee Free Choice Act and You

The Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA) is likely to pass in the first 100 days of the Obama presidency and it is going to have profound effects on the relationship between management and labor and on how you run your business.


Tags: small business, unions, the employee free choice act, labor, congress, obama

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Posted: 11/18/2008 | Comments Comments (3) | Print Print Article

Charles
Charles C

What Would a Real Stimulus Package Look Like?

The Congress is proposing yet another economic stimulus package. Did the first one work? What did we get for all the bother and cost of it? Unemployment is on the rise, there is a recession and we are lurching toward socialist economics. It doesn't look like the meager "stimulus" worked well the first time, does it? Maybe, instead of handouts, doing something that would really stimulate the economy would be a good idea. What do you think?


Tags: small business, congress, economic stimulus package

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Posted: 10/24/2008 | Comments Comments (2) | Print Print Article

Charles
Charles C

Public Officials and Corruption—The Chinese Way

When it comes to corrupt public officials, we don't take care of business the way they do in the Far East. Now that we are spending over a trillion dollars because some folks in the Government cared more about buying votes than doing what's right, don't you think we need to take a good, hard look at politicians that do us wrong?


Tags: small business, congress, corruption, china

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Posted: 10/20/2008 | Comments Comments (1) | Print Print Article

Charles
Charles C

Stacking the Deck Against Small Business—Again!

The folks in Congress can't seem to keep from doing as much harm as good. New legislation to reauthorize the SBA's Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) programs has a poison pill in it that should worry any small business owner trying to compete for government contracts.


Tags: small business, congress, sba, small business innovation research, sbir, small business technology transfer, sttr

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Posted: 10/8/2008 | Comments Comments (0) | Print Print Article

Charles
Charles C

Wrapping-up the Current Economic Crisis

It just keeps going doesn't it? The current economic crisis seems to hang on like a cancerous chest cough--you just can't get rid of it. Here is the latest on why things are going south in the markets, who's fault this really is, a lovely vacation for some bailed-out executives and a little advice from Chuck Norris and the Founding Fathers.


Tags: small business, bailout bill, paulson, congress, frank, dodd, chuck norris, founding fathers, aig

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Posted: 10/7/2008 | Comments Comments (1) | Print Print Article

Charles
Charles C

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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Posted: 10/3/2008 | Comments Comments (7) | Print Print Article

Charles
Charles C

Reminding Congress Who It Works For

Was it constituent pressure, political games or simply that it was a bad bill that killed the bailout for Wall Street yesterday? Now that it's dead, what does it mean for your small business?


Tags: small business, bailout bill, paulson, congress, credit

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Posted: 9/30/2008 | Comments Comments (2) | Print Print Article

Charles
Charles C

How Much More Will This Cost?

Are you ready to spend a whopping 20% of the wealth of the United States to set things right after our government let Wall Street brats run amok with the nation's financial system? Are you willing to trust that these politicians, most of whom have their hands dirty in all of this, will do the right thing by you?


Tags: small business, bailout bill, paulson, congress

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Posted: 9/23/2008 | Comments Comments (2) | Print Print Article

Charles
Charles C

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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Posted: 9/22/2008 | Comments Comments (0) | Print Print Article

Charles
Charles C

Energy Freedom Day 2008

October First will be a seminal day in U.S. History. Either the Congress will finally admit that they are more concerned with their ideological base, or they will get out of the way, end the moratorium on offshore drilling and allow the nation to declare Energy Independence Day.


Tags: small business, oil, congress, gas prices, hr 6899

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Posted: 9/19/2008 | Comments Comments (1) | Print Print Article

Charles
Charles C

New Life for the ADA

There are some amendments coming that will change the way the ADA works and how it is interpreted by the courts.


Tags: small business, ada, amendments, congress, supreme court

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Posted: 9/17/2008 | Comments Comments (0) | Print Print Article

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Charles C

Even with E-Verify, the ICE-man Cometh

American employers are in the forefront--whether they like it or not--of our nation's fitful efforts to stem the tide of illegal immigration. Many thought that by voluntarily adopting DHS's E-Verify program, they could quickly and accurately check the status of new hires and protect their company from legal trouble. As it turns out, neither of these hopes seems to have come to pass.


Tags: small business, illegal immigration, illegals, ice, congress, e-verify, neva, enforcement, identity theft

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Posted: 9/10/2008 | Comments Comments (0) | Print Print Article

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Charles C

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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Posted: 8/27/2008 | Comments Comments (0) | Print Print Article

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