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What Is A CDS, Or Credit Default Swap?

CNN | Nicholas Varchaver and Katie Benner | Posted 10.10.2008 | Business

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If Hieronymus Bosch were alive today to paint a triptych called "The Garden of Mortgage Delights," we'd recognize most of the characters in the baccha...

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Why are Female Executives Giving Palin's Thin Credentials a Pass?

Lesley Jane Seymour | Posted 10.07.2008 | Style

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Plenty of us have experienced that moment when the job of your dreams seems to drop into your lap--but just too early in your career, when you just have to say, thanks but no thanks.

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Bailout Bill Doesn't Need to Waive Federal Acquisition Law

Lloyd Chapman | Posted 10.01.2008 | Business

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Lloyd Chapman

The multitude of problems that could arise by allowing government officials to ignore even the most foundational principals of the Federal Acquisition Regulation could be catastrophic.

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Bailout Plan May Include Anti-Small Business Language

Lloyd Chapman | Posted 10.01.2008 | Business

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Lloyd Chapman

The Bush "bailout bill" includes some suspicious language that has small business advocates concerned. The Bush Administration has been persistent in ...

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New SBA Head Still Refusing to Release Small Business Contracting Statistics

Lloyd Chapman | Posted 09.18.2008 | Business

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Lloyd Chapman

Eleven and a half months after the end of the federal government's fiscal year (FY) 2007, new Acting Administrator of the Small Business Administratio...

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Latest GSA Small Business Contracting Numbers Include Billions to Fortune 500 Corporations

Lloyd Chapman | Posted 09.17.2008 | Business

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Lloyd Chapman

Yesterday, the General Services Administration (GSA) issued a press release stating that the agency had exceeded all of its small business contracting...

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USW Helps Empower Workers on Firestone Plantation in Liberia

Fred Redmond | Posted 09.15.2008 | Business

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Fred Redmond

This is what unrestrained, immoral and disloyal multinational corporations have reduced us to: modern slavery.

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Venture Capitalists Try to Buy Into Small Business Contracting Programs with Millions in Campaign Contributions

Lloyd Chapman | Posted 09.10.2008 | Business

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Lloyd Chapman

A new bill set to be voted on by the full Senate could be the beginning of the end for millions of small businesses nationwide. The bill, S. 3362, pas...

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CVBT: "McCain or Obama: Same old, same old for small business"

Chris Gunn | Posted 09.05.2008 | Business

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Chris Gunn

Today, the Central Valley Business Times ran an interview with the President of the American Small Business League, Lloyd Chapman. The interview was ...

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New SBA Head Stalling the Release of Latest Small Business Contracting Statistics

Lloyd Chapman | Posted 09.04.2008 | Business

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Lloyd Chapman

In late July, the Small Business Administration (SBA) announced it would release its official federal small business contracting statistics for Fiscal...

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Federal Judge Forces SBA to Release Contracting Data

Lloyd Chapman | Posted 08.28.2008 | Home

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Lloyd Chapman

The Small Business Administration (SBA) has lost another round in its ongoing legal battle with small business advocate Lloyd Chapman and the American...

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Democratic National Platform Dodges Key Small Business Issues

Lloyd Chapman | Posted 08.26.2008 | Business

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Lloyd Chapman

Today, the American Small Business League (ASBL) released the following press release regarding the 2008 Democratic National Platform. After reviewi...

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SBA Blackwater Problem Just a Piece of a Bigger Issue

Chris Gunn | Posted 08.08.2008 | Business

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Today, the Washington Post's, "Government Inc." blog by Robert O'Harrow Jr. stated: "Like companies across the land, Blackwater sought to be designa...

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McCain Small Business Plan Ignores Major Small Business Issues

Lloyd Chapman | Posted 08.07.2008 | Business

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Lloyd Chapman

On Monday, Senator John McCain's (R - AZ) presidential campaign issued a press release entitled, "John McCain's Plan To Help Small Business." The pla...

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Senate Committee Votes to Give Government Small Business Contracts to Billionaire Venture Capitalists

Lloyd Chapman | Posted 07.31.2008 | Business

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Lloyd Chapman

Petaluma, Calif. - Yesterday, the Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship passed S. 3362, the SBIR/STTR Reauthorization Act of 2008. T...

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Blackwater Gets a Billion in Small Business Contracts with Help from SBA Loophole

Lloyd Chapman | Posted 07.30.2008 | Business

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Lloyd Chapman

The Small Business Administration ruled that Blackwater was a small business -- yet another example of the Bush administration diverting billions to some of the largest corporations in the world.

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SBA Goes After Its Harshest Critic

Lloyd Chapman | Posted 07.29.2008 | Business

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Lloyd Chapman

The American Small Business League (ASBL) has uncovered an extensive campaign by the Small Business Administration (SBA) to impugn the organization's ...

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CNN: "SBA Scandal"

Lloyd Chapman | Posted 07.28.2008 | Business

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Source:  www.cnn.com ...

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The Diversion of Small Business Contracts to Large Corporations is Alive and Well

Chris Gunn | Posted 07.24.2008 | Business

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Chris Gunn

Location is not the only major contributing factor in determining whether small businesses are able to compete effectively for contracts with the federal government, it's also the diversion of those contracts to large corporations.

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Bush to Take Last Crack at Dismantling Programs for Middle Class Firms

Lloyd Chapman | Posted 07.24.2008 | Business

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Lloyd Chapman

The Bush administration is gearing up to take one last shot at dismantling federal programs designed to assist middle class firms.

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Big Business Dominates Small Business Contracting Programs

Chris Gunn | Posted 07.17.2008 | Business

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Chris Gunn

This is a great story, which ran across Associated Press media outlets today regarding the unequal distribution of small business contracts in the Washington D.C. area.

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Government Small Business Contracts Went to Fortune 500 Companies

Lloyd Chapman | Posted 07.09.2008 | Business

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Lloyd Chapman

Federal investigations clearly show that Fortune 500 corporations are the actual recipients of federal small business contracts, and yet the Bush administration continues to maintain that this is a myth.

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The Biggest Winners (And Losers) On The Fortune 500

Fortune | Posted 04.23.2008 | Business

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Fortune Magazine reports that "It's no surprise that an oil company leads the list of 2007's top profit-makers." Among the winners on their list: 1....

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Wal-Mart Tops Fortune 500 List Again

Fortune | Posted 04.21.2008 | Business

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1. Wal-Mart Stores Rank: 1 (Previous rank: 1) CEO: H. Lee Scott Jr. Address: 702 S.W. Eighth St. Bentonville, AR 72716 Phone: 479-273-4000 Website: w...

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Mitt Romney, Meg Whitman and the Failed CEO Campaign

Paul Jenkins | Posted 01.11.2008 | Politics

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Paul Jenkins

Meg Whitman, Romney and their Fortune 500 crowd implied that their success at Bain, eBay, et al, would translate into a winning campaign. This has not happened. At all.

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