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The Case For Localizing Mom-And-Pop Investment

PYMNTS

At the same time, many early stage startups, particularly in the technology sector, still have access to traditional financing, like venture capital and private equity. Last week, small business accounting company ScaleFactor released a new survey on how SMBs access capital. Localizing Capital.

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The Election That Misplaced Small Businesses

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Trade has been a big topic of conversation on the campaign trail, as have debt, taxes, wages, immigration and monetary policy. Can someone please make capital available? With a caveat – also almost always offered – that capital and credit have never been easy issues. 2) Can taxes be made comprehensible?

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The Current Banking Crisis – 10 Not So Apparent Lessons

South State Correspondent

It turns out that confidence is more valuable than capital. The ratio would provide a bank’s current core capital position to risk-adjusted assets. Some form of this ratio will likely be applied to the national and regional banks, which means larger community banks will also be judged by this ratio.

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Massachusetts: Frozen Growth In The Frozen North

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And nowhere in the region are these qualities more on display than in Massachusetts, the state that both brought us the phrase “Boston Strong” and countless memes of people barbecuing during blizzards. The vagaries of the New England economy show up, encapsulated, in Massachusetts. The overall region was up 2.3

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Killing Strategy: The Disruption Of Management Consulting

CB Insights

Bain, whose co-founders would go on to start Bain Capital, had a particular expertise in finance from the beginning. Mitt Romney, center, began his career at BCG but made his real fortune as vice president of Bain & Company and co-founder of Bain Capital — specialization-wise, a fitting career move.