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...more coherence to just what exactly you guys are trying to do, and how. I know this is much easier said than done, given the startling rapidity with which things have headed down the drain. But the bailout of Citibank about a week ago makes the point; at the start of this, the so-called TARP (the Troubled Asset Relief Program) was going to be used to buy bad assets from financial institutions. Those institutions could then be recapitalized and, with their balance sheets repaired, set about lending again to qualified individuals and businesses, providing the economy with the seed...
...continue to innovate and evolve. One of the most significant changes has been the move from group to individual lending - an area that Women's World Banking, an international network of microfinance institutions and banks, has helped pioneer. Individual lending is a way to allow micro businesses to start to grow, providing larger, cash-flow based loans than the group might be comfortable counter-guaranteeing. Group lending, where large groups of borrowers are jointly responsible for making sure loans are repaid, is an excellent introduction to finance for micro-entrepreneurs, but the businesses tend to remain quite small, purely income...
Shortly after the 6 a.m. shift change, drilling crews start pouring into the Base Camp Café in Rifle, Colo. Business has been booming at the diner for much of the past few years as rising energy prices have increased exploration activity at the nearby natural-gas-rich Piceance Basin. Four years ago, the café moved to a new, 100-seat location to accommodate the crowds...
...what many recent college grads do—packed up his stuff and moved into an even smaller living space in New York. However, instead of choosing (selling his soul to) Goldman Sachs, he decided to gather some of his friends from high school and start his own company: GradeFund.com. GradeFund connects college students to sponsors who pay them for their good grades. Potential sponsors range from parents to prospective employers. People who pay you to get good grades? Sounds like parents...awesome parents. And this isn’t Kopko’s first go at entrepreneurship...
...anyone could have had an impact on Martin's fortunes, it would have been Obama," Black says. "My thinking on why he may not have made a personal visit to the state was because it looked like Martin wasn't going to win and he didn't want to start off with the defeat of a candidate he endorsed." Martin campaign spokesperson Matt Canter reiterates that the President-elect has been very supportive of the campaign, not only with ads and robo-calls but with the support of his formidable campaign team on the ground. "Clearly [Obama] is focused...