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Colorado small business owners favor penalizing employers who hire illegal immigrants, privatizing some functions of state government and incentives promoting economic development. The findings are part of this year's National Federation of Independent Businesses member survey. The NFIB asked the following questions this year:
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Friday's gloomy economic forecast from Goldman Sachs solidified a consensus that the economy is just treading water. Goldman's downgrade from 3 percent to 2 percent gross domestic product (GDP) growth for this quarter would nearly match last quarter's anemic 1.8 percent growth rate if it bears out. The economy is growing at half the rate President Obama's first budget projected it would this year. But the slowdown is not the whole story because there are, to borrow a phrase, two Americas: big business, which has enjoyed a legitimate recovery, and small business, which hasn't had much to show for it. Companies that finance themselves through the capital markets have been rewarded for being large enough to use stocks and bonds, which have rallied since early 2009. Even leveraged loans, at...
... been advantaged over small banks; big businesses have been favored versus small businesses; and tho...
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Of the estimated 45 million Americans without health insurance, 51 percent live in a household headed by a small business owner or work for a small business, according to the National Federation of Independent Business. One-third of the member businesses answering a Colorado Springs Chamber of Commerce survey two years ago said they couldn't afford to offer health insurance benefits to their employees.
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One in four small businesses surveyed nationally say the recession is threatening their ability to survive, with a third of prospective borrowers being turned down on applications for bank credit since September - and about the same number having altered credit terms for their own customers. The National Federation of Independent Business included businesses with fewer than 250 employees in its survey published in December. The results echoed informal surveys of banks and borrowers conducted by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, which reported widespread tightening of commercial credit.
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Small-business owners were more pessimistic in March than in February, according to a survey of companies by the National Federation of Independent Businesses. The NFIB's index fell to an eight-month low of 86.8 from 88, with only one of 10 components improving. The index has been below 90 for 18 consecutive months now, having hit a cyclical low of 81 in March 2009.
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WASHINGTON - Key proposals from the Republican presidential candidates might make for good campaign fodder. But independent analyses raise serious questions about those plans and their ability to cure the nation's ills in two vital areas, the economy and housing. Consider proposed cuts in taxes and regulation, which nearly every GOP candidate is pushing in the name of creating jobs. The initiatives seem to ignore surveys in which employers cite far bigger impediments to increased hiring, chiefly slack consumer demand.
...Many existing businesses, however, have plenty of unspent cash. The 500 com... second, according to a survey by the National Federation of Independent Businesses. Of the small...
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WASHINGTON - Small businesses are still waiting for the economic rebound that's enabled larger companies to obtain low-interest credit and to boost exports and production in recent months. Smaller companies aren't much more optimistic than they were in the depths of the recession, according to a survey released Tuesday by the National Federation of Independent Business.
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There is an endrepreneur in every entrepreneur. Endrepreneur (end- ruh-preneur) is a phrase I coined that replaces "ent" in entrepreneur with "end." I've defined endrepreneurship as the progression of time, effort and risk toward exit, and underlies the entire period of association the entrepreneur has with the business as its primary owner. That's right, I am suggesting that more of an entrepreneur's association with a business is spent on exit than on entry, even though many people start businesses without much thought to exit. The endrepreneur undertakes exit behaviors throughout the life of the venture and assumes the financial risks of leaving the business. These behaviors affect the options for exit. Some exit behaviors are intentional, such as succession planning, and some are un...
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...The latest estimate from the National Association for Business Economics predicts a grow...The latest survey by the National Federation of Independent Business...Remember, small businesses are the engine of the economy. Many franchise smal...
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Local bankers say they are eager to make loans to small businesses. Trouble is, not many small businesses are asking. Instead, small businesses are putting off expansions and renovations, waiting for the economy to turn around.
... time now, bankers have been fighting a national and local perception that lending to small busines...A national survey of small businesses this month by the National Fedderation of Independent Businesses found 91 percent of small business surv...
