Post-Election Calm? Nope. What You Need to Know About the Fiscal Cliff
Officials in Washington wasted no time in setting themselves heading straight toward the precipice. What does the "fiscal cliff" mean for your business? Read story
Robb Mandelbaum
How to Negotiate Effectively
Steps for getting what you want at the negotiating table. Read story
How to Pick a Site for Your Business
Whether you are opening a new store, setting up a small factory, or looking to lease a branch office, these tips will help you find the right location for yo... Read story
How to Conduct Market Research
A guide to using market research to understand who your customers are and what they want Read story
Senators Tell -- Ahem, Ask -- IRS To Ease Up On Small Biz
A bipartisan quartet of leading Congressmen and Senators has called on the IRS to stop collecting stiff penalties from small firms investing in illegal ta... Read story
Chamber Girds Itself To Defend The "Free Market"
Having concluded that free enterprise, such as it is, is under siege -- with the government seemingly ready to capitulate to "many union leaders, some env... Read story
When Entrepreneurship Hurts Health Care
McAllen, Texas, and El Paso have a lot in common. Both are poor, both are 80 percent Hispanic, and both metropolitan areas are home to just over 700,000 p... Read story
Health Insurers: No Reform For Small Group Market
We've heard much noise from the health care industry lately that sounds a lot like Kumbaya -- everyone, it seems is on-board with reform. Even insurers su... Read story
The SBA Lends A Helping Hand To Car Dealers, Again
The Obama Small Business Administration today promised to deploy yet another tool in its economic recovery "toolbox" to help beleaguered car dealers. Begi... Read story
SBA Throws Small Biz Another Lifeline: Interest-Free Loans
Just in time for National Small Business Week (Yes Virginia, there is a National Small Business WeekRead story
Republic Resurrected: A Small Biz Stakes Success On The Stimulus
These days, it doesn't take too much effort to find a business set to prosper in the stimulus economy -- just follow the contrails of Air Force One and Tw... Read story
Is The FDIC Selling Small Business Short?
Last week, close readers of the New York Times might have discovered what appeared to be a bombshell: the Federal Dep... Read story
Why Obama's Small Biz Rescue Plan Is Collapsing
You might recall that a couple weeks back, the Obama Administration convened a "small business summit" to Read story
The Specter Of Card Check Is Gone, For Now
The fight over the Employee Free Choice Act -- a.ka. "card check" -- appears to have ended bef... Read story
The Specter Of Card Check Is Gone, For Now
The fight over the Employee Free Choice Act -- a.ka. "card check" -- appears to have ended bef... Read story
Treasury Stands Ready to Buoy SBA Lending
The big news from the White House's small business summit yesterday, as reported on television in any case, was that the president is angry—Read story
SBA Relents On Goodwill Rule, For Now
A few weeks ago, Agenda reader Roland wrote<... Read story
What Is Small Business? (And Can It Afford Health Insurance?)
A report on National Public Radio last Saturday laid out a debate that may so... Read story
Congress Splits The Difference On SBA Financing
There were big differences between the House and ... Read story
Chamber Vs. Chamber: And The Winner Is...
...the Senate, at least when it comes to the small business tax provisions. On these, the House-Senate stimulus compromise looks a lot like the Senate's v... Read story
The GOP's Stimulus Speciousness
In the waning hours of the GOP's unsuccessful effort to... Read story
The Innovation Competition
What do you do when you're frustrated by the pace of innovation? Peter Diamandis, for one, started the X Prize . Inc... Read story
Chamber Vs. Chamber II: Comparing Congress' Financing Stimuli
Yesterday, we looked at the tax incentives in the ... Read story
Stimulus Bills Compared: You'll Like The Senate's Better
So are the stimulus bills circulating on Capitol Hill good for small business? Well, yeah. Hundreds of billions of dollars in new government spending will... Read story
The New Labor Landscape
Speaking late last year, Chamber of Commerce labor lobbyist Randy Johnson saw the future, and it looked grim. The Democratic president-elect promised to r... Read story
Stimulus Bill Meets Resistance -- And Not From The GOP
Republicans aren't the only ones in the House digging in their heels on the Obama-Pelos... Read story
Geithner, Part II: The Record
Yesterday, I suggested that Timothy Geithner's wi... Read story
Tim Geithner's Innocent Mistakes
"These were careless mistakes," the man who would be President Obama's Treasury Secretary Read story
The Bush SBA's Last Act: Relenting On Women's Procurement
The sun hadn't set yesterday in D.C. before the official repudiation of the Bush Administration began. Late in the afternoon, new White House Chief of Sta... Read story
GOP May Try To Block Incoming Labor Secretary
As Barack Obama glides to a swearing in before a record, and enraptured, crowd, there are signs that things won't go as easily for his pick to become Secr... Read story
NFIB's Trailblazing President Hits The Highway
Todd Stottlemyer, president and CEO of the National Federation of Independent Business , is leaving the organization on F... Read story
The Obama Administration: Now What?
Barack Obama campaigned on an agenda of change -- from increased financial oversight to health-care reform. But with an economic crisis that shows no signs o... Read story
SBA Loans (Still) Plunging
The news out of the Small Business Administration's corner of the market only gets worse -- and worse. As CNNMoney.com Read story
When You Fall Out Of Love With Obama, You Fall Hard
Back in February, the American Small Business League Read story
And The SBA's Next Chief Is REALLY...
...Karen Gordon Mills, a Maine-based investment manager, according to an account<... Read story
And The SBA's Next Chief Is...
...Magic Johnson? Perhaps not, but that's who Karen Kerrigan, president and CEO of the Small Business... Read story
Kerry Grows Too Big For Small Business Committee
For years, the small business constituency had a powerful advocate in Senator John Kerry, Democrat of Massachusetts. He was chairman of the Senate Committ... Read story
A Peek At Obama's SBA
Last week, the Center for American Progress offered the incoming Obama Administration a public memo on the ... Read story
No Good Guys At Republic Windows
This is the blog post I wanted to publish today: Let us go Read story
The NSBA's Muddle Way
It's sometimes worth remembering that the National Federation of Independ... Read story
