The lack of available credit and loans is having a severe impact on small businesses in particular, but also their suppliers and the bigger companies too.
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For small businesses, you need less taxes, less federal spending, and you need less regulation that blocks their growth.
In October 2008, when the credit crunch hit, small businesses were really crushed by the lack of capital.
Oftentimes, small business owners are unable to obtain reasonably priced financing and instead turn to higher priced forms of capital, such as credit cards.
Small businesses are really the engine in the economy.
That said, there is a tendency to help the large industrial conglomerate more quickly than the small company you have never heard of. That is something in the culture we are trying to change.
Small businesses are vital contributors to our economy. They are the economic engine that is creating jobs, exploring innovation, and expanding opportunities for Americans in every community across the Nation.
The world is filled with successful small businesses that stay small.
One of the biggest problems out there that I hear from my friends in the business community is that there's no lending, that it's tough to get a loan today.
Small businesses are the backbone of our economy.
The most important thing for small businesses is getting the economy back on its feet. That - the key driver of small business activity is demand for their product, and that is what we are trying to do, getting the economy back on its feet. That's far more important than other factors.
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