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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

The Madoff Scandal: Who is Watching the Watchmen?

It is getting to be a little ridiculous, we discover that folks on Wall Street have misbehaved with money and then we learn that the folks in government charged with overseeing those activities were looking somewhere else. Now it’s a huge Ponzi scheme and SEC investigators with blinders on. What’s next, a floating craps game for CEOs betting mortgage-backed securities?


Tags: small business, sec, christopher cox, bernard madoff, ponzi scheme, congress, oversight, fraud, scandal, who is watching the watchmen

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Posted: 12/17/2008 | 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

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

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

The Employee Free Choice Act and You

The Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA) is likely to pass in the first 100 days of the Obama presidency and it is going to have profound effects on the relationship between management and labor and on how you run your business.


Tags: small business, unions, the employee free choice act, labor, congress, obama

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Posted: 11/18/2008 | Comments Comments (3) | Print Print Article

Charles M Cooper
Charles M Cooper

What Would a Real Stimulus Package Look Like?

The Congress is proposing yet another economic stimulus package. Did the first one work? What did we get for all the bother and cost of it? Unemployment is on the rise, there is a recession and we are lurching toward socialist economics. It doesn't look like the meager "stimulus" worked well the first time, does it? Maybe, instead of handouts, doing something that would really stimulate the economy would be a good idea. What do you think?


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Posted: 10/24/2008 | Comments Comments (2) | Print Print Article

Charles M Cooper
Charles M Cooper

Public Officials and Corruption—The Chinese Way

When it comes to corrupt public officials, we don't take care of business the way they do in the Far East. Now that we are spending over a trillion dollars because some folks in the Government cared more about buying votes than doing what's right, don't you think we need to take a good, hard look at politicians that do us wrong?


Tags: small business, congress, corruption, china

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Posted: 10/20/2008 | Comments Comments (1) | Print Print Article

Charles M Cooper
Charles M Cooper

Stacking the Deck Against Small Business—Again!

The folks in Congress can't seem to keep from doing as much harm as good. New legislation to reauthorize the SBA's Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) programs has a poison pill in it that should worry any small business owner trying to compete for government contracts.


Tags: small business, congress, sba, small business innovation research, sbir, small business technology transfer, sttr

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Posted: 10/8/2008 | Comments Comments (0) | Print Print Article

Charles M Cooper
Charles M Cooper

Wrapping-up the Current Economic Crisis

It just keeps going doesn't it? The current economic crisis seems to hang on like a cancerous chest cough--you just can't get rid of it. Here is the latest on why things are going south in the markets, who's fault this really is, a lovely vacation for some bailed-out executives and a little advice from Chuck Norris and the Founding Fathers.


Tags: small business, bailout bill, paulson, congress, frank, dodd, chuck norris, founding fathers, aig

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Posted: 10/7/2008 | Comments Comments (1) | Print Print Article

Charles M Cooper
Charles M Cooper

The Bailout Passes! Now What?

OK folks, we asked for it. The Monster Wall Street Bailout has passed! The Dow rallied, then it fell, now what? More to the point, what has this mess taught us?


Tags: small business, congress, mortage crisis, paulson, bernanke, 1929

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Posted: 10/3/2008 | Comments Comments (7) | Print Print Article

Charles M Cooper
Charles M Cooper

Reminding Congress Who It Works For

Was it constituent pressure, political games or simply that it was a bad bill that killed the bailout for Wall Street yesterday? Now that it's dead, what does it mean for your small business?


Tags: small business, bailout bill, paulson, congress, credit

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Posted: 9/30/2008 | Comments Comments (2) | Print Print Article

Charles M Cooper
Charles M Cooper

How Much More Will This Cost?

Are you ready to spend a whopping 20% of the wealth of the United States to set things right after our government let Wall Street brats run amok with the nation's financial system? Are you willing to trust that these politicians, most of whom have their hands dirty in all of this, will do the right thing by you?


Tags: small business, bailout bill, paulson, congress

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Posted: 9/23/2008 | Comments Comments (2) | Print Print Article

Charles M Cooper
Charles M Cooper

The 2008 $700 Billion Bailout: It Seems We Have Been Here Before

Take a look at the 1929 stock market crash and the Savings and Loan crisis in the 1980s and you will find some really eerie similarities to what we are facing today.


Tags: small business, congress, mortage crisis, paulson, bernanke, 1929

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Posted: 9/22/2008 | Comments Comments (0) | Print Print Article

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