The Sunshine Report

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Category Archive: Community Development Financial Institutions Fund

  1. Small Business Lending Needs Help; A Forbes Article On How Washington Can Help

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    Yes­ter­day Forbes pub­lished an arti­cle that I wrote on small busi­ness lend­ing and what Wash­ing­ton can do to help. Click here to jump to Forbes and read the arti­cle. [read full story]

    Posted in: Bond Insurance, Business Environment, Community Development Financial Institutions Fund, Credit Crisis, economy, Finance, Forbes, Politics, Public Policy, SBA, Small Business Lending, Tax policy

  2. TARP 1.0 Didn’t Get Lending Going and TARP 2.0 Won’t Be Much Better" rel="bookmark">TARP 1.0 Didn’t Get Lending Going and TARP 2.0 Won’t Be Much Better

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    TARP 1.0 didn’t get lend­ing going and TARP 2.0 won’t be much bet­ter. The prob­lem is that TARP 2.0 con­tin­ues to focus on banks as the pri­mary lend­ing insti­tu­tions despite the fact that banks aren’t the pri­mary source of non-real estate credit for con­sumers or busi­nesses. Most non-real estate lend­ing takes place through the “shadow […] [read full story]

    Posted in: BANKS, Bond Insurance, Community Development Financial Institutions Fund, Credit Crisis, economy, Finance, Fiscal Policy, Mutual Funds, Obama, Paulson, Politics, Public Policy, SBA, Timothy Geithner