The Federal Reserve (“Fed”) has now entered into its fourth month of reducing the impact of quantitative easing on the economy. The original theory behind quantitative easing was that if the Fed purchased bonds, it could sustain lower interest rates for borrowers. Therefore, more companies would borrow, which in turn, would help the economy with import …
Big Firms Fill Funding Gap was the headline on April 22, 2014’s CFO Journal section of The Wall Street Journal. The article confirms our predictions that the unintended consequence of Dodd-Frank is the reduction of capital available for small companies. The article describes how large companies who rely on smaller companies are financing their expansion …
The end of the first quarter of 2014 is upon us. It’s time to evaluate your business goals and objectives against actual performance.If you wrote your goals down as was suggested in Are You Better Off Today Than You Were A Year Ago?, you have the means to objectively analyze where your business stands and …
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Last Friday the US Jobs report for January 2014 was published. The economy created 175,000 new jobs in the month of January. Economists expected this figure to be lower because of severe weather throughout the United States. If the figure was smaller, the typical cycle of the economy losing steam in the Spring would have …
Last week, we wrote a funding support letter for one of Capstone Corporate Funding, LLC’s clients who submitted a bid on an opportunity with the Port Authority of New York & New Jersey (“Port Authority”). The company submitted their bid along with a letter of funding support to prove to that they had sufficient access …
Last Friday there was a Wall Street Journal article entitled “Apps Are Wrecking Mom-and-Pop Pizza Shops.” The primary reason why independent pizza shops are losing business is their failure to develop methods of communicating with online and mobile technology. Essentially, with purchase order factoring and invoice factoring in the mix, the chain and franchise pizza …
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A headline from the Money & Investing section of The Wall Street Journal on January 30, 2014 was “U.S. Banks Start to Ease Limits on Lending”. What a casual observer would glean from such a headline is that the banks are open for new Business Loans. The article starts out very hopeful by describing how …
Is your head spinning? Depending on what you are reading, the economy is now declining after retail sales have been calculated for the holiday season. Durable goods orders are down, new housing starts have slowed and car sales are expected to plummet. Emerging markets are taking a hit because the Federal Reserve (Fed) is pulling …
Everyday, depending on what consumers or employers are doing, the economy is either growing or contracting. There are a few Economic Indicators or news announcements that you might be interested in following to come to your own conclusions: The decision by the Federal Reserve (“Fed”) to either increase or decrease the Quantitative Easing (“QE”). Whether …
It is mid January which means you have settled in on your Goals for 2014 and are reviewing them twice daily. By now, you should be getting great ideas when you least expect them. From experience, when engaged in non-work-related activities, the best ideas come to one’s mind. It is important to write these ideas …
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