Year: 2012

Profits from High Risk Businesses May Not Last Long

It is projected by many economists that the downturn in our nation’s financial status is only going to get worse in 2009. A few business owners and entrepreneurs have been turning the financial crisis into big profits and some say they are preying on instability. Mortgage company owners have opened mortgage restructuring companies, and debt […]

Interchange Fee Legislation – Who Will Pay the Price?

This spring, U.S. Representatives Peter Welch (D-VT) and Bill Shuster (R-PA), introduced HR 2382, the Credit Card Interchange Fees Act of 2009.  Welch, the bill’s author, states that “credit card fees are killing small businesses.”  The act, targeted to help small retailers, would limit the fees charged to merchants.  It would also prohibit charging higher […]

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