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		<title>Senate Votes $30 Billion in Small-Business Aid</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Source: New York Times, July 22, 2010
By DAVID HERSZENHORN
The Senate voted on Thursday to include a proposed $30 billion lending program in a package of aid for small businesses, as two Republicans joined with Democrats to support the amendment.
The vote was 60 to 39, with Senators George LeMieux of Florida and George V. Voinovich of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bizcap.com/related-business-news/senate-votes-30-billion-in-small-business-aid/</link>
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		<title>Small Business: Denied</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Recently, Mr. Bernanke was characterized as being puzzled as to whether small businesses were deprived of liquidity because banks aren’t lending or demand is simply weak.
 Has Mr. Bernanke spent much time talking to the business owners who are struggling to stay afloat?  Has he spent time talking to the alternative lenders who are inundated with [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bizcap.com/blog/small-business-denied/</link>
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		<title>Small companies denied credit as big firms thrive</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Source: Associated Press
WASHINGTON – Big companies are building up cash and are expected to report strong earnings starting this week. Not so for small businesses that can&#8217;t get loans — or hire freely until they do.
The gap helps explain why the economic rebound isn&#8217;t stronger and could even stall. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke stepped [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bizcap.com/related-business-news/small-companies-denied-credit-as-big-firms-thrive/</link>
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		<title>To Lend or Not to Lend?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[That is the question for most small, community banks.  Small businesses and banks are both frustrated by the tight credit standards for new loans. 
The banks cannot afford to make questionable loans, yet want to preserve the established relationship with the borrower.  Companies at a critical juncture need a credit facility for working capital, yet find [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bizcap.com/blog/to-lend-or-not-to-lend/</link>
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		<title>When the bank says ‘No,’ it can still say ‘Yes’</title>
		<description><![CDATA[source: Fort Worth Business Press , July 05, 2010
BY JEFF NOLAND
 Despite bank bailouts from Washington, D.C., credit for small and mid-sized businesses remains extraordinarily tight. For many banks, the lending pipeline is simply too clogged with “non-bankable” loans to even consider relaxing their credit standards for new loans, even for their existing customers.
It is a situation that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bizcap.com/related-business-news/when-the-bank-says-%e2%80%98no%e2%80%99-it-can-still-say-%e2%80%98yes%e2%80%99/</link>
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		<title>Will Obama’s Small-Business Agenda Survive Congress?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Source: New York Times.com
By ROBB MANDELBAUM
It was late October when President Obama first called for measures to stabilize struggling small businesses. Then, in his State of the Union address in January, he emphasized the role small business would play in healing the nation’s wounded economy. But it is only now, eight months after that speech, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bizcap.com/related-business-news/will-obama%e2%80%99s-small-business-agenda-survive-congress/</link>
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		<title>Show Me the Money!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last week, Federal Reserve Chairman, Ben Bernanke came out strong urging big banks to increase lending to small business. Mr. Bernanke cited the steep decline – roughly $40 billion in the last two years &#8211; in loans to smaller companies and questioned whether this is due to reduced demand or tightened credit standards.
Can there even [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bizcap.com/blog/show-me-the-money/</link>
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		<title>Tight Credit Choking Off Creation of New Jobs and Economic Recovery</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ironically, the administration is proposing a tax credit for companies hiring new employees. With credit markets nearly frozen, businesses large and small cannot access the credit they need to meet existing payroll demands &#8212; how are they to create additional jobs?
Roughly 99% of all firms are small businesses and employ half of all private sector [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bizcap.com/blog/tight-credit-choking-off-creation-of-new-jobs-and-economic-recovery/</link>
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		<title>SBA Loan?  Get in Line.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Since it’s inception in February of 2009, the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act has funneled $680 million into programs supporting more than $27.5 billion in lending to more than 60,000 small businesses nationwide, according to SBA Administrator, Karen Mills.  In the tight credit climate, loans backed by the US Small Business Administration with reduced fees [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bizcap.com/blog/sba-loan-get-in-line/</link>
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		<title>TMA/ACG Annual Liquidity Conference</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[ September 30, 2010; ] When: September 30, 2010

Where: The Roosevelt Hotel, New York, NY

For more information, please visit: www.turnaround.org]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bizcap.com/events/tmaacg-annual-liquidity-conference/</link>
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