Women must be willing to speak up in order to develop their financial knowledge, use their God-given skills to communicate, and recognize their accomplishments in the same way men do, unwilling to let themselves be defined by anything but the value they offer to their clients or customers.

FORBES: Independent Business Women Now Determine Economic as Well as Political Agendas

Although it should still, in theory, be profitable for banks to lend to small and medium-sized companies, they seem unwilling to do so.

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