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  |   MY ALERTS Most Popular   |   Video   FGC BOLSA- FGC FIN Compiled:  February 7, 2014 09:07:32 PM For Small Businesses, a Road Without a Map By CONRAD DE AENLLE Last year, owners of small businesses had to cope with higher tax rates. This year, they will wrestle with greater uncertainty about the fate of some deductions they have come to rely on. Congress has not renewed the so-called extenders, about four dozen provisions in the Internal Revenue Code that permit write-offs of various types of business expenditures and expire periodically, most recently at the end of 2013.  Most or all of them could be reinstated, although no vote has been scheduled. Unless and until they are, tax specialists warn, it will be hard for business owners to make informed decisions about spending for capital equipment, research and development, and even new employees. Continue reading:   http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/09/business/yourtaxes/for-small-businesses-a-road-without-a-m

  |   MY ALERTS Most Popular   |   Video   |   FGC BOLSA- FGC FIN Compiled:  February 3, 2014 07:06:43 PM Back to Job Hunt After Sharing State of the Union Spotlight By ANNIE LOWREY President Obama mentioned Misty DeMars’s job search in the State of the Union address, although it has not led to any offers. Yet.

  |   MY ALERTS Most Popular   |   Video   |   My Account FGC BOLSA- FGC FIN Compiled:  January 31, 2014 Big Companies Join Obama in Initiative to Help Long-Term Unemployed By PETER BAKER Walmart and Apple are among 300 businesses that have agreed to review policies that may screen out applicants who have not worked in a long time

FGC BOLSA- FGC FIN Compiled:  January 27, 2014 01:08:25 PM A Federal Reserve Policy Maker Urges It to Do More By BINYAMIN APPELBAUM Narayana Kocherlakota, president of the Minneapolis Fed, said the central bank should increase its efforts stimulate the economy. Today in Small Business: Data Breaches By GENE MARKS Gas prices fall. How PayPal is changing. Another retailer may have had a data breach.

  |   MY ALERTS Most Popular   |   Video   FGC BOLSA- FGC FIN Compiled:  January 22, 2014 04:37:59 PM Treasury Secretary Sends Warning on Debt Limit None The warning by Treasury Secretary Jacob J. Lew sets up the latest fiscal showdown earlier than Republican leaders anticipated.

 |  MY ALERTS Most Popular   |   Video   FGC BOLSA- FGC FIN Compiled:  January 16, 2014 06:38:09 PM High & Low Finance A Window for Real Tax Reform By FLOYD NORRIS Enacting a plan that would close tax loopholes and lower rates, while raising needed federal revenue, would not be easy. But recent work by congressional committees raises some tantalizing possibilities.

 |  MY ALERTS Most Popular   |   Video   |   FGC BOLSA- FGC FIN Compiled:  January 16, 2014 01:37:14 PM You're the Boss Today in Small Business: Name Your Own Price By GENE MARKS A new chief of the S.B.A. Federal contracts going to private companies plunge. What business owners wish they had known when they started.

| MY ALERTS Most Popular | Video   FGC BOLSA- FGC FIN Compiled:  January 15, 2014 08:06:55 AM India Ink A Pocket Guide to the 2014 Jaipur Literature Festival By AAYUSH SONI From Friday through Tuesday, celebrated writers from India and abroad will talk about not just their books but also about the two World Wars, Afghanistan after the withdrawal of American troops, Himalayan languages and the making of modern China.

 |  MY ALERTS Most Popular   |   Video   | FGC BOLSA- FGC FIN Compiled:  January 7, 2014 02:36:30 PM U.S.  VIDEO FEATURE:  Obama Calls For Action on Unemployment Associated Press The President said Congress should pass legislation that would restore benefits to millions of people who are struggling to find work in an economy that is still recovering from a deep recession.

 |  MY ALERTS Most Popular   |   Video   FGC BOLSA- FGC FIN Compiled:  December 18, 2013 07:36:17 AM Economix What to Look for Today at the Fed By BINYAMIN APPELBAUM A look at the issues confronting the central bank as it considers whether the time has come to pull back from its bond-buying program.  

 |  MY ALERTS Most Popular   |   Video   | FGC BOLSA- FGC FIN Compiled:  December 15, 2013 08:37:24 PM Op-Ed Columnist Why Inequality Matters By PAUL KRUGMAN The economic populists have it right.

 |  MY ALERTS Most Popular   |   Video FGC BOLSA- FGC FIN Compiled:  December 10, 2013 07:06:18 AM Op-Ed | Steven Rattner U.S. Budget Fiasco Redux By STEVEN RATTNER We urgently need to reverse the federal government’s backward fiscal policy and address long-term deficits. The agreement taking shape does neither.

 |  MY ALERTS Most Popular   |   Video   FGC BOLSA- FGC FIN Compiled:  December 4, 2013 07:06:01 AM Economix The Minimum Wage and the Laws of Economics By JARED BERNSTEIN The income decay among the lowest-paid workers does not reflect a decline in the value they add, and a moderate increase in the minimum wage would improve their lot without violating economic taboos, an economist writes.

 |  MY ALERTS Most Popular   |   Video   FGC BOLSA- FGC FIN Compiled:  November 24, 2013 06:36:43 PM Looking Ahead Economic Reports for the Week of Nov. 25 An American Airlines bankruptcy ruling, and a looming deadline for the federal health insurance website..

 |  MY ALERTS Most Popular   |   Video   |   My Account FGC BOLSA- FGC FIN Compiled:  November 22, 2013 01:06:25 PM You're the Boss Today in Small Business: Forget Consumer Confidence By GENE MARKS Jobless claims fall. Finding less expensive alternatives to Square. Paying for tuition with Bitcoin.

  |   MY ALERTS Most Popular   |   Video   | FGC BOLSA- FGC FIN Compiled:  November 20, 2013 03:07:14 PM Economix The Unemployment Rate at Full Employment: How Low Can You Go? By JARED BERNSTEIN and DEAN BAKER As the Federal Reserve tries to calibrate the unemployment target in its monetary policy, it can afford to aim for a far lower rate without inviting an unacceptable level of inflation, two economists write.

  |   MY ALERTS Most Popular   |   Video   | FGC BOLSA- FGC FIN Compiled:  November 20, 2013 11:36:33 AM You're the Boss Today in Small Business: 577 Million Vacation Days By GENE MARKS The owner of a restaurant chain is sentenced to prison for tax evasion. How a small-business exemption could undermine an online sales tax. Are we in a tech bubble?

  |   MY ALERTS Most Popular   |   Video   | FGC BOLSA- FGC FIN Compiled:  November 19, 2013 05:36:17 AM O.E.C.D. Forecasts Lower Growth for Euro Zone By JACK EWING The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development said the euro zone would grow 1 percent next year, a rate that is not strong enough to make a dent in unemployment.

  |   MY ALERTS Most Popular   |   Video   FGC BOLSA- FGC FIN Compiled:  November 18, 2013 12:36:46 PM Economix Inequality's Roots: Beyond Technology By JARED BERNSTEIN Attributing widening wage inequality to a shortage of technology-based skills, with education as the solution, overlooks more fundamental causes and needs, an economist w

| MY ALERTS Most Popular | Video | My Account FGC BOLSA- FGC FIN Compiled:  November 14, 2013 Bonds Backed by Solar Power Payments Get Nod By DIANE CARDWELL SolarCity, a leading installer of solar-power systems in the United States, received a low investment-grade rating for the bonds, which will help finance its rapid expansion.