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Who lends to small businesses?
Banking Regulation, Financial Markets, Money & Politics, News

Who Lends to Small Businesses?

Diego Zuluaga/May 11, 2020June 19, 2022

This question has gained new urgency as the federal government scrambles to bring emergency funding to millions of small businesses across the country under the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP). The PPP consists of forgivable loans that borrowers may use to cover employee payroll, rent, and utilities for…

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Banking Regulation, Economic History, Money & Politics, News, The Fed & Central Banks

Main Street Memories, Yet Again

George Selgin/April 30, 2020June 19, 2022

(Your editor penned this summary version of his writings on the Fed's Great-Depression era attempts at Main Street lending in the hope that a respectable newspaper would publish it. Alas, those newspapers turned it down, as did some more dubious outlets. As my piece's content seems as…

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