Karen Mills: SBA "Not Prepared" on Katrina Loans
The SBA administrator says "we've learned from our mistakes and, today, we have a much better disaster assistance program in place." Read more
Politics, Economics, and Current Events
Recent Politics, Economics, and Current Events Articles
Gulf Spill Taking Toll on Small Businesses
A quarter of respondents to a new national survey say the oil spill will impact their businesses negatively. Read more
Finding Growth in a Recession
The only thing constant on this year's Inc. 5000 list is change; although growth is down, revenue is up for a new group of top industries. Read more
The Clean-up Crew
Do you have high credit card bills or an unused timeshare? A number of today's fastest-growing companies are helping consumers to undo the bad choices they m... Read more
Entrepreneurs In The News
The latest news on LL Cool J, Jack Nicklaus and Cynthia Rowley. Read more
Taking Advantage of a Percolating IPO Market
The IPO market bounced back this year, enabling a backlog of promising companies, including several on this year's Inc. 5000, to go public. Read more
Small Kombucha Brewers Find Themselves in Hot Water
Dozens of small brewers suddenly in dire straits as the government weighs whether the popular bottled tea should be regulated as an alcoholic beverage. Read more
Federal Cash for Infrastructure Slow to Flow
A year and a half after Congress voted for $862 billion in stimulus funds, huge chunks of it are still waiting to be spent. Read more
Silicon Valley Smackdown
Each day, Inc.'s reporters scour the Web for the most important and interesting news to entrepreneurs. Here's what we found today:<... Read more
Study: Start-ups Create Lasting Job Growth
Though only a fifth of start-ups survive long-term, they replenish the employment market, Kauffman's Robert Litan reports. Read more
In Praise of the Millionaires Tax
Each day, Inc.'s reporters scour the Web for the most important and interesting news to entrepreneurs. Here's what we found today: ... Read more
Challenging Obama's Agenda
According to Newt Gingrich, Congress is failing to live up to its promise of creating jobs and stimulating the economy. Here, he offers his two cents and sug... Read more
Small Businesses Fight Offshore Tax Havens
Multinational companies use tax havens to avoid $37 billion in taxes -- money that could be spent on a small business lending fund. Read more
The Gates-and-Buffett Effect
Paul Allen to give billions to philanthropy. The co-founder of Microsoft and owner of the NBA's Portland Trailblazers announced on Thursday that he... Read more
Report: Small Business Credit Card Use Creates Jobs
Study finds significant benefits to using credit cards, including revenue growth that's spurred massive job creation. Read more
The Start-Up Economy
How to help entrepreneurs help the U.S. economy Read more
Entrepreneurs in the News
The latest news on Rick Bayless, Sacha White, and Rashidah Ali Read more
Reader Mail: July/August 2010
Inspired by Bob Moore and the marital issues of entrepreneurs Read more
The Immigrant Advantage
Immigrants have always provided the U.S. with its entrepreneurial advantage. It's time that the country again commit itself to tap the best and brightest--wh... Read more
Community Organizers
Meet the business activists. Read more
How to Make More Manufacturers
Plenty of Americans have the desire to make actual stuff, not just software. What they lack are the tools. We should help them. Read more
The Start-Up Conundrum: By the Numbers
How can we create more new companies? Read more
Student Loan Breaks for Entrepreneurs
Why the federal government and lenders should cut recent grads some slack. Read more
A Tax Cut for Angels
How states such as Ohio, Wisconsin, and Minnesota give angel investors (and start-ups) a break. Read more
Cutting Incorporation Bureaucracy
It takes six days and six filings to incorporate a business in the United States. Do we really need this level of bureaucracy? Read more
An Energy Policy for Entrepreneurs
To encourage investment in the clean-tech economy, officials in Washington need to pass legislation that sets the rules of the game. Read more
Why It's Time to Revamp the SBIR
A federal program meant to foster innovation seems to benefit only a select-few companies that are very good at winning grants. Read more
How States Can Attract Venture Capital
A program in New Mexico provides a model for other states that would like to grow their local investment communities. Read more
Government Data for Entrepreneurs
The so-called Government 2.0 movement seeks to unleash a wave of entrepreneurship by making government data more widely available for commercial use. Read more
Why We Need More Funding for Big Science
Research and development done under the auspices of agencies such as the NIH, NASA, and DARPA has seeded America's entrepreneurial economy for decades. It wo... Read more
Why Microfinancing Works
Banking the unbankable can prove to be a smart investment for cities and states. Read more
Financial Reform and You
You can be forgiven if you're having trouble figuring out what the financial regulatory reform bill means to you. Reportedly logging in at over 2,0... Read more
Small Town Gets a Boost from the Twilight Craze
The famed Twilight saga has changed the shape of small businesses in tiny Forks, Wash., where the books are based. Read more
The World's Most Interesting Intern
Cisco's greatest hire? You might have hired an intern or two for the summer, but it seems that only Cisco is lucky enough to employ the (self-procl... Read more
Overstock.com Opens a Virtual Store Dedicated to Small Businesses
The Main Street Store, launched by Overstock.com in June, partners with U.S. small businesses to sell their products online. Read more
