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SBA 504 Expert is the “World’s Most Interesting Commercial Lender” . . .
  • Thursday, February 25th, 2010 at 3:08 pm
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If you’ve been “following” us for a while, you know we have a healthy sense of humor and may even be a little irreverent sometimes. After we released our parody of the hit-show, The Office, last year (which if you haven’t seen it, or if you’d like to watch it again – – and who Read More »

Why We’re Hosting Congressional Candidates in Our Offices on Tuesday, February 23rd and Why You Should Care . . .
  • Wednesday, February 17th, 2010 at 4:10 pm
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Humbly, my very first “official” job after graduate school in the mid-90s was working as a temp for a few weeks doing “clipping work.” What I mean by “clipping work” is that I was the on-staff clipping “service” for all things of interest to my employer. Full disclosure: I got paid (not terribly well) to Read More »

Attack of the Snow in New York City . . .
  • Thursday, February 11th, 2010 at 12:02 pm
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In my blog post yesterday about President Obama’s latest small business initiatives (which you ought to read if you haven’t yet) I mentioned how I was writing it in my hotel room in New York City overlooking Central Park and Columbus Circle. Below is a picture of how the corner of Central Park looked as Read More »

SBA 504 Expert Weighs in on Obama’s Latest Small Business Proposals…
  • Wednesday, February 10th, 2010 at 11:16 am
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I flew into New York City early yesterday afternoon and met with Marshall Eckblad, the national banking reporter for Dow Jones (owners of the Wall Street Journal, Barron’s, SmartMoney, and others). And after getting his personal tour of the Dow Jones offices (including seeing the wall of Pulitzer Prizes and “The Hub,” where reporters from Read More »

SBA 504 Expert Comments on President Obama’s first State of the Union Address

This probably comes as no surprise to you, but I’d like to share my thoughts on President Obama’s first State of Union Address that was delivered just a little over a week ago. For the sake of time (both yours and mine), I’m going to restrict the majority of my comments to the President’s remarks Read More »

SBA 504 Expert Tells the Truth About Tax Incentives on FOX Business News . . .

In case you missed it (and there’s a good chance you did), I was on FOX Business News late Friday afternoon. I found out that I would be on FOX’s Happy Hour show earlier that same day, while I was out of the office at a day-long meeting, so I didn’t have much time to Read More »