credit crunch

"Anonymous Banker," who works for a major bank and so understandably wants to keep his identity secret, tells us why fewer S.B.A.

SATIRE -A panel of experts debate whether the government should stop dumping money into a giant money hole or whether the free market should decide.

WASHINGTON (Blue MauMau) - The Small Business Administration announced Thursday that the number of government-backed loans to small businesses sank by 30 percent.

For most of us, the current global economic crisis is like nothing that we have ever seen.

Dees Stribling, Contributing Editor for Commercial Property News states in an interesting article:

As franchisees struggle to find capital from lenders, some large franchisors are thinking of putting a new face across the negotiation table: their own.

ALEXANDRIA, Va. (Blue MauMau) - The MIT Center for Real Estate shows that retail property prices have been falling significantly in America's top ten cities when compared to past years (click chart). Such information has retailers battening down the hatches in preparation of the coming retail storm.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (Blue MauMau) - Nobody seems to know what this economic mess really entails or when it will settle down. Is the sky falling? Probably for some, but not for most.

WASHINGTON, D.C. (Blue MauMau) - With small business and franchise leaders saying that this is one of the toughest economic environments in decades, Bob Seiwert, head of the American Bankers Association's Center for Commercial Lending and Business Banking provides four banking tips to small business owners to help weather the credit crunch.