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From McCombs TODAY and Texas Magazine
By Rob Adams
The Chinese might have been prescient about the current world situation when they coined the phrase “may you live in interesting times.” However, most entrepreneurs and business owners are finding these times a little too interesting for comfort, and they are looking for insight on how to manage [...]

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From McCombs TODAY and Texas magazine
THE STRANGE POLITICS OF THE FINANCIAL BAILOUT
by David B. Spence, professor of business law
The political process that led ultimately to the passage of the Troubled Asset Relief Program Act of 2008—better known as the “Wall Street bailout”—was a strange one. By the time the mortgage crisis was fully understood, enormous [...]

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From McCombs TODAY and Forbes.com
How gloomy are entrepreneurs?
Check out the latest results of a survey of 805 small-business owners by the National Federation of Independent Businesses, a Washington, D.C.-based lobbying group. In the last 420 months that the NFIB has taken that monthly pulse of small-business owners–on everything from profits and inventories to hiring and capital [...]

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