Charles Schumer


Privacy Concerns Continue to Dog Facebook

Several U.S. Senators and the Federal Trade Commission are looking to regulate Facebook and other social networking sites. How does that affect you?

Read more

Recent Articles about Charles Schumer

Those Pesky Airport Scanners

By Curt Finch |  Mar 8, 2011

The new full body airport scanners received a lot of attention at the end of 2010.  I travel frequently for my job so air travel is a big part of my ...  Read more

Schumer Calls for Emergency Business Loans

By Angus Loten |  Oct 6, 2008

Despite the $700 billion bailout, banks are freezing credit for small businesses, the New York Senator says.  Read more

Congress Gets Into The Entrepreneurship Act

By Joseph P. Kahn |  Jun 1, 1984

Congress is currently considering a piece of legislation that may go farther than anything before it in defining the entrepreneur's concerns within the br...  Read more

Election '84: Pursuing An Entrepreneurial Agenda

By George Gendron |  Nov 1, 1984

Are you better off now than you were four years ago? Don't smirk. The Trivial Pursuit phenomenon (see "Big Game," page 101) not withstanding, this must be...  Read more

The Making Of The President 1988

By Joel Kotkin |  Nov 1, 1984

THERE IS A RISING GENERATION OF POLITICAL LEADERS -- IN BOTH PARTIES -- THAT IS LOOKING TO SHAPE A WHOLE NEW POLITICS OF GROWTH.  Read more

Have You Checked Your Facebook Privacy Settings Recently?

By Courtney Rubin |  May 6, 2010

A Facebook glitch points up more security problems on the social networking site, while a new survey shows some people (your employees, perhaps?) don't take ...  Read more

Bailing Out The Bear

By Robb Mandelbaum |  Mar 20, 2008

One of the more entertaining sideshows to the spectacle of the Federal Reserve bailing out Bear Stearns belongs to the contortionists -- the ideologues wh...  Read more

SBA Revamps Lending Rules

By Andrew Leigh |  Nov 13, 2008

The federal small-business agency is allowing its lenders to offer a choice of interest rates.  Read more

Small Businesses Smacked with Credit Card Rate Hikes

By Courtney Rubin |  Sep 3, 2010

Without legislative protections given to consumers, small businesses have seen interest rates increase by more than 30 percent this year, a new study finds.  Read more

Small-Business Aid Urged

By Venuri Siriwardane |  Nov 5, 2008

Lawmakers are calling on the SBA to provide emergency loans to struggling business owners.  Read more

Obama on the Economy

By Robb Mandelbaum |  Nov 18, 2008

WHAT THE EXPERTS SAY Stimulating the economy: In the eyes of economists, not all stimuli are created equal. According to Mark Z...  Read more

All Eyes on Apple Today

By Kasey Wehrum |  Jan 27, 2010

Did Calacanis spill the beans on the Apple tablet? On Tuesday evening, serial entrepreneur Read more

Ground Zero: The State of Small Business

By Susan Hansen |  Oct 8, 2001

Joe Caccesse, a loan officer for the Small Business Administration, hasgotten used to mass disasters. He started out with the SBA in Northridge,California...  Read more

Is Aggressive Intervention Required?

By Robb Mandelbaum |  Sep 18, 2008

WHAT THE EXPERTS SAY Stimulating the economy: In the eyes of economists, not all stimuli are created equal. According to Mark Z...  Read more

Storming the Hill

By Eamon Javers |  Feb 1, 2003

Now that the Republicans are in command, the small-business lobby hopes this new congressional session will bring it more victories than losses. Here's the v...  Read more