Small Business Too Big For One Week A Year

Posted by Benjamin Tomkins 10:04 AM ET | May 20, 2009

Containing small business to a single week is ridiculous. SMBs are the economic engine that will lead us out of this recession whether we celebrate them during National Small Business week or not.

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Technology Tainting Trials? Guilty, Guilty, Guilty!

Posted by Fredric Paul 04:06 AM ET | Mar 18, 2009

The New York Times is wringing its hands over jurors checking the Web during trials, leading to a rash of mistrials. But the Times' story gets the point almost completely backwards. The fault isn't with the technology, or with the jurors. It's with an arrogant, controlling legal system living in a dream world that ignores fundamental changes in the way people access information.

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bMighty vs. Bernanke: What's A TALF? And Why Should You Care?

Posted by Fredric Paul 05:57 PM ET | Mar 3, 2009

Announced last November, the oft-delayed Term Asset-Backed Securities Loan Facility, or TALF, will finally write its first loans on March 25. The goal is to free up $1 trillion in consumer and small business lending.

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bMighty vs. Bernanke - Obama Finally Steps Up For Small Businesses. But Will It Be Enough?

Posted by Fredric Paul 11:50 PM ET | Feb 25, 2009

Small business got a lot of attention on the Presidential campaign trail last year, but they've seemed kind of invisible in Washington since then. Until last night, that is, when President Obama finally shared the love with entrepreneurs and small business owners. But despite the glowing rhetoric, it's not at all clear that business owners will get what they what they really want out of the administration.

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bMighty vs. Bernanke - The TED Spread Is Down, So Why Aren't We Smiling?

Posted by Fredric Paul 06:49 PM ET | Jan 9, 2009

Last Fall, at the height of the credit crisis, a variety of esoteric financial indexes, including the TED Spread and the LIBOR, were setting new records, and not in a good way. Well, the TED Spread has fallen back to earth, but the economy keeps getting worse. What the heck is going on here?

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Tribune Bankruptcy -- It's Their Own Damn Fault

Posted by Fredric Paul 04:33 PM ET | Dec 8, 2008

The Tribune Company -- which owns the Chicago Tribune, the LA Times, and the Chicago Cubs, among many other things -- filed for bankruptcy protection today. It didn't have to happen.

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The Lighter Side Of Bad News

Posted by Fredric Paul 03:50 PM ET | Dec 3, 2008

With the economy now officially almost 12 months into a nasty recession, even The rANT can get depressed. So it warms our tubular heart to remember that it's always possible to find humor amidst economic ruin.

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This Presidential Blackberry Thing Is More Complicated Than We Thought

Posted by Fredric Paul 05:29 PM ET | Nov 22, 2008

Earlier this week, The rANT posted a screed blasting the powers that be for denying President-Elect Obama his prized Blackberry once he enters the White House. Well, it turns out that Blackberry has already been hacked.

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Small Is The New Large: Presidential Edition

Posted by Fredric Paul 10:36 PM ET | Nov 19, 2008

bMighty likes to say that small organizations enjoy plenty of benefits compared to larger outfits, and the curious case of Barack Obama and his Blackberry is a perfect illustration.

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bMighty vs. Bernanke: Unintended Consequences

Posted by Fredric Paul 10:02 PM ET | Nov 14, 2008

This whole economic crisis is starting to look like a movie of a spectacular multi-car freeway wreck -- in slow-motion with no sound. We watch individual drivers careen about tying to avoid the pile-up, but end up causing new accidents.

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Election 2008: How The bMighty ANT Voted

Posted by Benjamin Tomkins 01:05 AM ET | Nov 5, 2008

As the nation watched, listened, and went online to learn the results of yesterday's election, we kept close tabs on our own electorate of bMighty readers and how they believed the bMighty ANT should vote.

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Election 2008: How Should The bMighty ANT Vote?

Posted by Benjamin Tomkins 11:59 PM ET | Nov 4, 2008

In the midst of economic crisis, this election presents a historic opportunity to determine the leadership of our nation for the next 4 years. We want to know from you, bMighty readers, how you think the bMighty ANT should vote. And regardless of which candidate you think the ANT should back, don't forget to cast your own ballot.

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bMighty vs. Bernanke: More Mixed Signals

Posted by Fredric Paul 09:06 PM ET | Oct 28, 2008

The rANT is becoming seriously confused -- these days it seems like the only certainty is uncertainty. On a day when U.S. consumer confidence dives lower than ever before, the stock market celebrates with its second-largest point gain in history.

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bMighty vs. Bernanke - Back To The Drawing Board

Posted by Fredric Paul 06:57 PM ET | Oct 15, 2008

Well, it seems The rANT might have been a bit premature when we hailed last week's global 1 trillion-euro bailout. Today's 733 nosedive in the Dow made it pretty clear that we are not out of the woods yet.

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bMighty vs. Bernanke - Good News Edition?

Posted by Fredric Paul 03:47 PM ET | Oct 13, 2008

It seems that the $700 billion US bailout was just too puny to do the job. The global bank bailout proposed this weekend at the G7 conference raised the ante to more than 1 trillion euros, and sent Wall Street soaring. And it's not a moment too soon for business owners, as almost a fifth of US small businesses say the economic conditions threaten their very survival.

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