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Charles M Cooper
Charles M Cooper

Retail Stimulus

There has been a lot of talk of how the trillions in bailout money should go to Main Street now that Wall Street has wasted its cut and the automakers are about to take their piece. Now, with a proposal from the National Retail Federation, that might be a step closer to happening, but will it work?


Tags: retail, bailout, stimulus, national retail federation, nrf

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Posted: 12/29/2008 | Comments Comments (2) | Print Print Article

Charles M Cooper
Charles M Cooper

Happy Holidays from America’s Best Companies

During this season of giving, where everyone seems to be getting their bailouts, even Santa could use some help from Congress.


Tags: santa, bailout

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Posted: 12/23/2008 | Comments Comments (0) | Print Print Article

Charles M Cooper
Charles M Cooper

Should Government be Run Like a Business?

The Congress just gave itself a pay raise. For you and me, pay raises are predicated on things like a good financial picture and personal achievement; you know, meeting goals, raising the bar, exceeding expectations—all that good, positive stuff—but pay raises for our legislators don’t work that way. Maybe it is time they should.


Tags: small business, congress, government, pay raises, bailout, waste, corruption

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Posted: 12/19/2008 | Comments Comments (0) | Print Print Article

Charles M Cooper
Charles M Cooper

Clinton Insider Gets Commodities Post, Automakers Get $17.4 Billion

Important stories and highlights from the world of business. Today: Obama picks former Clinton official to regulate commodities, Bush offers carmakers a bailout of their own, things to do now to take the sting out of tax day and much more.


Tags: small business, obama, bush, paulson, gensler, treasury, commodities, regulation, automakers, bailout, taxes, tarp, marketing, haggling, goal-setting, sexual harassment, holiday party, irs, healthcare, yellow pages, local search, customer relations, digital marketing

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Posted: 12/19/2008 | Comments Comments (0) | Print Print Article

Charles M Cooper
Charles M Cooper

Electoral College Speaks: Obama is 44th President

Important stories and highlights from the world of business. Today: Obama is officially the elected President, mark-to-market accounting would put the US deficit at over $1 trillion, managing change, cutting costs without pink slips and much more.


Tags: small business, obama, mark-to-market, us deficit, bailout, change management, cost cutting, start-ups, training, follow-up, health reform, customer service, email, search engines, marketing

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Posted: 12/15/2008 | Comments Comments (0) | Print Print Article

Charles M Cooper
Charles M Cooper

Obama Pleads for the Automakers, Chances for Passage Slim

Important stories and highlights from the world of business. Today: Obama is seeking aid for Detroit but the Senate Republicans are not playing ball, credit seems to be loosening a bit, past discrimination case at the Supreme Court, holiday parties, health reform, whether the Millennial generation has the right stuff for business and much more.


Tags: small business, obama, congress, gop, republicans, democrats, auto industry, bailout, economy, discrimination, supreme court, credit, holiday parties, healthcare reform, barter, millennials, burglary, getting paid, customers, social networks

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Posted: 12/11/2008 | Comments Comments (0) | Print Print Article

Charles M Cooper
Charles M Cooper

$350 Billion in the Hole and Record Unemployment: Time for Something Different

When we were being sold on bailing out the financial sector, we were told that it was necessary to save jobs, homes, investments, businesses. Well, the first half of the initial $700 billion has been spent, stocks have been trending down and the unemployment rate is higher now than it has been in decades. Now a congressman from Texas has a radical idea: Take the other $350 billion and use it to finance a two-month tax holiday for all Americans. Now that’s what I call progressive!


Tags: small business, taxes, tax holiday, congress, reid, pelosi, gohmert, bailout, paulson, bernanke

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Posted: 12/5/2008 | Comments Comments (1) | Print Print Article

Charles M Cooper
Charles M Cooper

Sweating the Recession and Predicting the Next Big Economic Pain

Important stories and highlights from the world of business. Today: Immigration issues, the Big Three CEOs are back, the unions seem ready to deal, absenteeism, new environmental regulations and much more.


Tags: small business, democrats, obama, napolitano, immigration, dodd, automakers, bailout, recession, unemployment, absenteeism, unions, deadbeat customer, advertising, management issues

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Posted: 12/4/2008 | Comments Comments (0) | Print Print Article

Charles M Cooper
Charles M Cooper

Automaker Leadership Vows Cuts: Are They The Right Cuts?

Management is making cuts and concessions to wring another $25 billion from Congress, but is the key to success selling off their jets and canceling bonuses, or gaining the cooperation of the UAW to save their companies once and for all?


Tags: small business, uaw, ford, chrysler, gm, mulally, wagoner, nardelli, loans, bailout, union

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Posted: 12/2/2008 | Comments Comments (0) | Print Print Article

Charles M Cooper
Charles M Cooper

Small Business Brief for 12/01

Important stories and highlights from the world of business. Today: Bush apologizes for the economy, other rescue options are in the cards, Obama wants to spend another half-trillion to fix the economy, tax changes, handling email mistakes and much more.


Tags: small business, obama, economy, recession, depression, congress, democrats, marketing, paulson, fed, bernanke, bailout, email, advertisements, taxes, ada

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Posted: 12/1/2008 | Comments Comments (0) | Print Print Article

Charles M Cooper
Charles M Cooper

Small Business Brief for 11/24

Important stories and highlights from the world of business. Today: A new economic team takes over, more bailout talk, business partnerships and much more.


Tags: small business, obama, bush, bailout, paulson, partnership, marketing, fed, email, search marketing

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Posted: 11/24/2008 | Comments Comments (0) | Print Print Article

Charles M Cooper
Charles M Cooper

A Trillion Here, A Trillion There and Pretty Soon We're Talking Real Money

Recently, Bloomberg reported that the Federal Reserve has pledged more than $7.4 trillion to help work the credit markets loose. They are doing this while the FHA is backing more subprime loans, many of which originating with the same people who brought us to this crisis, are being made—loans that could finally kill the US economy for good.


Tags: small business, bailout, fed, fha, credit, credit crisis, subprime mortgages

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Posted: 11/24/2008 | Comments Comments (0) | Print Print Article

Charles M Cooper
Charles M Cooper

Finally! Something Good from Sarbanes-Oxley

It is one thing to destroy your own company, but quite another to destroy your company, cripple your industry and then fly in your company private jet to wheedle taxpayer money out of Congress so you can keep on with your wasteful ways. Pity, but there will likely be a bailout, but the least Congress can do is throw the Sarbanes-Oxley book at them.


Tags: small business, gm, ford, chrysler, automakers, bailout, congress

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Posted: 11/19/2008 | Comments Comments (0) | Print Print Article

Charles M Cooper
Charles M Cooper

Small Business Brief for 11/18

Important stories and highlights from the world of business. Today: What Obama's promises of change really mean to small businesses, more fighting over the bailout, the possibility of tax cuts, a blog-related lawsuit, guns at work and much more.


Tags: small business, obama, change, paulson, bailout, bernanke, tax cuts, wholesale prices, economy, credit, fed, blog, lawsuit, supreme court, vexatious litigant, guns, e-verify, human asset, competition, customers

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Posted: 11/18/2008 | Comments Comments (0) | Print Print Article

Charles M Cooper
Charles M Cooper

Small Business Brief for 11/14

Important stories and highlights from the world of business. Today: Bush talks up free market economics, Obama pushes to double the automaker bailout, SBA works to increase loan capital, small business proves to be the greatest innovative force in the economy and much more.


Tags: small business, bush, obama, paulson, capitalism, automakers, bailout, sba, taxes, patents, innovation, treasury department, consumer spending, unemployment, family leave, midnight rules, 401(k), barter

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Posted: 11/14/2008 | Comments Comments (0) | Print Print Article

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