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“Wag the Dog” is a euphemism for when a politician in trouble wages a war or does some other diversion to get the heat off his back. President Obama, it appears to me, is doing a “Wag the Mosque” as a smokescreen for a tanking deflation economy during his administration and to help his parties election chances in the November 2010 midterm elections. With only a couple months until the elections, they are in big trouble. Some pundits say the Democrat Party may loose control of both houses of congress.

Why else would President Obama suddenly take the moral high ground and come out in favor of building the Manhattan Muslim mosque so close to the site of the 9/11/2001 World Trade Towers ground zero attack? He knew 70% of New Yorkers are against building the 51 Park Avenue Islamic place of worship at that particular site. It is like rubbing salt in our wounds. Is a “Wag the Dog” war with Iran next?

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This is the Best Housing Economy in History…for Tax Lien Investors!

This housing market has made owning a house by purchasing the tax lien against it much easier, people just are not paying their taxes. Mortgage companies are SO laden with foreclosures that they are willing to write off the note just to get it off their books!

In good economic times, the redemption rate from the home owner stays around 90%. This means that 9 out of 10 homeowners pay their taxes before you, the holder of the tax lien, legally gains ownership of the house. To do this, the owner must pay you your invested price of the tax bill plus interest, which is a Win-Win scenario for you, the tax lien investor either way. Not too bad, right?

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This just in from BusinessWeek: “Nouriel Roubini, the NYU economist who accurately predicted the financial meltdown, writes an important commentary in The Globe and Mail about two disparate American economies: “There is a smaller one that is slowly recovering and a larger one that is still in a deep and persistent downturn,” he says.”

Roubini goes on to outline two separate Economies emerging within the United States — a smaller economy driven by large corporations that has slowly begun to emerge from recession, and the larger economy that is still in a deep and persistent downturn.

Echoing what I have been discussing in recent months with small business owners and in my Twitter postings @marketyoursite, small business owners Continue reading ‘Roubini – Small Business Behind the Lagging US Recovery’ »

All business have been impacted by the economy in the last 2 years. Businesses have gone bankrupt; have had to layoff employees, cut back on productivity and much more. Small businesses are the ones that have been most impacted by this economy. They are forced to run their own office with out administrative help, therefore, loosing time and not being able to focus on the core of their business, to make it grow.

As we listen to the news, the economy is not getting better; the Dept. of Labor has been reporting that there is a huge rise in unemployment in the last year alone. Here are 3 strategies a small business can implement, to help them Continue reading ‘Small Business Survival – 3 Strategies to Help Your Business in Today's Economy’ »

How many times have you walked down the aisle of the supermarket and saw something that made you say something like “Finally, a package that I can use in my car! I can’t believe it took them so long to figure that out.” I know I have. But the irony is, the underlying reason it often takes big companies so long to launch new products is the exact process that entrepreneurs mock, yet desperately need.

Don’t think for a second that these lumbering giants don’t understand the benefits of being first to market, innovative and creative. Many big companies have talented, entrepreneurial managers who dream of how they will launch the next great household item, in record time, galvanizing the organization behind them. (I know, I was once one of them). However, the reality in the world of the Fortune 500 (and beyond) is that they have a need to minimize risk. Continue reading ‘Small Business Planning – How to Reduce Risk Without Building Bureaucracy’ »

Well, if you are one of the 15 million Americans who are planning to start a business in 2010, I’d like to advise you that the time to start your business is right now in 2009. You should not wait until 2010 to start your business rather, you should start right now, and be ready to take on customers on January 1, 2010. The best time to start a business is right before the recession ends, and as the business expansion period starts.

Guess what, that’s already happened. We are already going into an expansion period and you should have already started your business. Even if we go into a double dip recession you’d be much better off to start your business now than to wait. If you wait until everything is perfect in 2010, you will have missed the boat, and be playing catch-up as the competition increases and the consumers come back. Did you know that 10% of all people in the US Continue reading ‘15 Million Americans in 2009 Are Planning to Start a Small Business in 2010’ »