504 Loan Blog
I just finished my monthly Live Small Business Success Strategies® TeleSeminar call, and this month I interviewed Bo Burlingham and Norm Brodsky, authors of The Knack: How Street Smart Entrepreneurs Learn to Handle Whatever Comes Up, and regular columnists in Inc. Magazine. Subscribers of our Series got many great insights, including how entrepreneurs should deal Read More »
The U.S. government’s fiscal year ended at midnight, September 30th. That often maligned agency for small business owners and entrepreneurs, the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA), just released fairly sad numbers for last year: their flagship 7(a) program was down 30.3% versus the previous year with only $12,671,136,000 in funded volume for 69,434 loans. The Read More »
Groundswells occur, according to the dictionary, when there is an obvious change of public opinion or political sentiment. They tend to occur in the absence of leadership, which is exactly what we have right now in America. If you believe, as I do, that Manifest Destiny didn’t just apply to our ancestors settling the West, Read More »
I probably don’t need to tell you how crazy the financial markets have been lately, or describe the frenzied and frantic behavior of regulators, politicians, and pundits. We all KNOW! CNBC’s ratings have skyrocketed! People are obsessed again (like in the late ‘90′s) with the stock market’s second-by-second gyrations. I’m sure productivity has been plummeting Read More »
[The following is my response to Peggy Noonan's opinion piece featured on the Wall Street Journal's website. Go here to read it now: "Palin and Populism."] Very well done piece — she loses me a little in the final 3 paragraphs, but the opening exactly captures why she really did win last night. She didn’t Read More »
I just received a phone call that is becoming all too common these past few weeks. A commercial real estate agent thought she’d take a chance to call us, just to see if we might still be lending. Apparently, she has a deal that needs closing for two physician clients of hers . . . Read More »
