Report: Small Business Optimism is ‘Clearly Stalled’
Optimism has “clearly stalled” among small businesses despite U.S. economic improvements. That was the summary for the end of 2009 by the National Federation of Independent Business, which today released ...
U.S. Chamber Now Targets Senate Finance Reform Bill
It orchestrated an expensive and ambitious campaign against a Consumer Financial Protection Agency, but the U.S. Chamber of Commerce lost that bid on Friday when the House passed its financial oversight reform ...
Reform Bill Creates New Overseers of Credit Industry
Despite vigorous opposition from banks and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the House today approved its landmark financial regulation reform bill that creates a new “oversight council” to monitor “systemic ...
Will Small Business Take a Hit from Obama’s Consumer Protection Agency?
The opposition is growing to President Barack Obama’s proposed new consumer financial protection agency, with multi-million TV ad campaigns and critical studies.
One such study shows that the administration’s ...
