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

In calendar 2008, Nebraska Business Development Center (NBDC) procurement technical assistance clients obtained more than $150 million in government contracts. This is a huge number, especially when

The Nebraska Business Development Center (NBDC) Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) outreach program provides general outreach and specific assistan

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

"He's a brilliant professor." "She's a brilliant violinist." "He's a brilliant running back." These days, we use the term brilliant in more ways than we used to. It used to be that brilliant was in

The one thing that is clear in the current economic environment is that recruiting businesses is not an attractive strategy for economic development. The crash is extending beyond the closing of manu

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

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),

The U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) is rolling out changes to its small business loan guarantee program after the announcement on St. Patrick's Day by President Obama. Among changes are an i

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

In 2008, the year just completed, NBDC consultants packaged loans that resulted in a little over $28 million in investment in Nebraska small businesses. That was a significant drop from 2007 NBDC pac