Today the Dow is giving up a big part of its gains in the past two weeks. The downturn can be blamed on the forced resignation of Rick Wagoner as chairman of General Motors. Is this because Wagoner

When I was in college there were plenty of brands of beer to choose from. Budweiser was then, as now, the most popular. But, second was Schlitz. Then there was Stroh's, POC (Pilsner of Cleveland),

President Obama held a media opportunity at the White House on Monday to announce actions by the US Small Business Administration to increase the availability of loans for small businesses. Among the

In his seminal work on public administration, Jan-Erick Lane (The Public Sector, 1995, London: Sage) notes that there is always tension between the individualistic "interest" and the general "public."

Today we learn that AIG, the insurance giant bailed out with billions of American taxpayer money, has paid tens of millions of dollars in bonuses to its top managers. The company justifies these paym

The stock market continues its slide. The Dow Jones Average is off 20% since the Presidents inauguration, making it an official bear market. Is that what they deserve, those greedy market makers on

The U.S. Small Business Administration has delayed implementation of a new standard operating procedure (SOP) for lending that would have restricted financing of goodwill to 50% of the loan amount up

In December 1991 I made my first trip to Romania under a United States Information Agency grant to the University of Nebraska at Omaha to help that country's oldest and largest university introduce fr

The US Small Business Administration is touting its new loan program for new car dealers. It is part of the political effort to show America it is doing something about the economic crisis.

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The U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) is developing a worthy initiative to increase the compliance of federal agencies with the small business procurement goals. At the same time, the initiati

The new associate administrator for finance at the U.S. Small Business Administration is an associate of Administrator Steven Preston from The ServiceMaster Company.

Eric Zarnikow now heads up

The U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) loan program is being managed more and more like those of a big, centralized, multi-state bank. It means efficiency. It may mean (though, I am not sure o

Today new standards for deciding who and who does not qualify for overtime pay become effective. These standards are not crystal clear. Yet, they are clearer and fairer than the standards they repla

One of the reasons small businesses are often exempt from government regulations is the perception that those businesses would be burdened by the government regulation. As a result, people often beli