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economic crisis

I guess this isn’t really news, because it’s pretty much what everybody expected. But still: The ADP National Employment report came out again today. The part that interests me most, the small business portion, shows yet another 284,000 jobs lost last month in the small-business portion of the economy–businesses with fewer than 50 employees. That’s [...]

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Please, if you own a business, take this simple (only 8 questions) survey on the impact the credit crunch is having on your business. It’s asking you whether you’ve applied for a loan, was it approved, would you have applied if it weren’t for the economic crash, and so on.  I’d like to know, and [...]

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Yesterday, during our weekly meeting at Palo Alto Software, sales guru David Shear, recently recruited out of a finance business sales spot, said he’d met with friends in the mortgage business over the holidays and “there’s a boom going on.” “I heard it over and over. Swamped with refinance applications, money is flowing, all of [...]

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