In many cases, banks are now requiring this type of protection to approve a small business loan.
Restoring a small business loan program and continuing tax credit funding.
Building wealth is not only about growing your assets, but also reducing your liabilities, be it a mortgage, student loan, car loan, credit card debt, or a small business loan.
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Another trap, more likely in these credit crunch days: One of your kids can't get a small business loan or a mortgage, so you lend him or her a wad.
Keep in mind, a small business loan of any sort, or a large business loan of any sort requires some sense of, all right, what's the business plan, what are your projected earnings, et cetera, et cetera.
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The apocalyptic tax consequence of being a passive investor in small business loans stops virtually all foreign investors from participating directly in the U.S. small business loan market while driving their investment dollars into the corporate bond market.
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So we've expanded the SBA loan -- the Small Business Administration loan portfolio by about 70 percent.
It should include expansions of vital Small Business Administration loan programs that are needed now more than ever.
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The law also added service-disabled vets to the list of groups eligible for fully guaranteed loans under the government's 7A small-business loan program and created a government-wide goal that 3% of all federal contracts must go to small businesses owned by service-disabled veterans.
Mortgages became less available, millions of credit cards were revoked, lines of credit dried up, and banks essentially abandoned the small business and student loan markets.
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P2P lending focuses on one individual lending to another, crowdfunding aggregates many small investors to provide a loan to one small business.
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And then finally, a discussion about the small business lending facility and loan program that the President believes -- and you saw the comments from Chairman Bernanke yesterday about the need to get -- continue to get increased capital to small business and why that is so important in our economic recovery.
Obama called for a program of loans for small businesses made through either the federal Small Business Administration's Disaster Loan Program or by private lenders.
Bob Ash, director of Wachovia 's small-business group, says loan volume has been steady in the past few weeks compared to the first quarter of 2007.
He is waiting for a loan from the Small Business Administration.
When Dave wanted to expand this company last year, he received a loan from the Small Business Administration that was part of the Recovery Act, part of the stimulus.
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Interest rates would spike for anybody who borrows money -- every homeowner with a mortgage, every student with a college loan, every small business owner who wants to grow and hire.
So far the Small Business Administration has approved loans and allowed many small businesses to defer existing loan payments.
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That will open the door for the governing elite to offer, and small business to support, more government funded loan programs.
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That means that small business owners who are counting on that loan to open their business, to make payroll, to expand, suddenly they can't do it.
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While larger companies will be able to continue developing projects, albeit on a smaller scale, without loan guarantees, small-business owners may be forced to abandon their projects.
When the housing market crashed in 2008, the Armstrongs began looking for a loan, backed by the Small Business Administration, which would allow them to consolidate at a lower rate.
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In France, small-business lending as a share of the overall loan market stayed constant before, during and after the crisis.
Favorable policies tied to business size, such as loan guarantees and regulatory exemptions, generally succeed in producing more small businesses, by encouraging more business starts but also by diminishing the relative returns from expansion.
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LibertyPointe of New York advertises that its loan officers will travel to see small-business borrowers.
And then from the savings, we teach them how to go to a bank and apply for a small loan so that they can start a small business.
To spur lending to small businesses, the government established the Small Business Lending Fund as part of TARP. which was designed to raise capital for small banks so they could loan out this money to small businesses.
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The area covered by Breezy Point's ZIP Code had the largest percentage of New York City households that received a Sandy-related disaster loan from the U.S. Small Business Administration, which are used for long-term rebuilding, including elevating homes.
He pledged to fight against Small Business Administration (SBA) budget cuts and other cuts to loan subsidies.
One small business owner I spoke with said he had better luck getting his loan approved by local credit union in suburban Maryland after being denied by two big banks.
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