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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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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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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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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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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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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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Charles M Cooper
Charles M Cooper

Bankruptcy vs. Bailout: Which is Really Better for the Taxpayer

With the Big Three Automakers threatening bankruptcy if they don't get a government bailout, the question is whether it would be better: to let them go under and fall into the hands of a bankruptcy judge or bail them out and let them fall into the hands of Congress?


Tags: small business, gm, ford, chrysler, paulson, bailout, bankruptcy, economy

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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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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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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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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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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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