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Minneapolis Fed Chief Calls For ‘Generous’ SMB Funding

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The Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis President Neel Kashkari said on Thursday (April 2) that policymakers should be generous with the help that is extended to small businesses. We need to err on the side of being generous, helping as many small businesses, as many small profits as we can to retain their workforce,” he said.

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Fed’s Harker Warns Of Economic Fallout Of Increased COVID Cases

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There’s both the direct economic impact of businesses having to close down,” Harker said during a webinar organized by the Fed, as reported by Reuters. Larkin wasn’t alone in that — Harvard University researchers estimated that around 110,000 small U.S. Harker said the impact could be twofold in its damage.

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As SMBs Grapple With Virus, No Assurance From Insurance

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The coronavirus continues to have reverberations across the global stage, and is especially impacting developed economies, and in particular, the small businesses that are a key foundation of those economies. The NFIB reported that about 23 percent of small- to medium-sized (SMBs) are being negatively impacted.

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Fed Officials Explore Ways To Reopen US

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The Fed has been introducing a number of new measures to keep interest rates low and credit flowing to various parts of the economy. The institution has broken rules it normally wouldn’t, agreeing to finance purchases of corporate assets and take loans to help small businesses.

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11 New Restaurant Concepts Reimagining Fast Food & Casual Dining

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In contrast with many fast-casual menus, “meat” at Next Level Burger is not advertised as organic, local, or grass-fed. North 3rd Street Market opened in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, in May 2018, just in time for the dreaded L train shutdown. Amplifying already adorable aesthetics, Instagram has become a low-cost engine for viral growth.

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Can Main Street SMBs Cross The PPP Cash Chasm?

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workforce, and whose businesses had been hard hit by the #stayathome requirements of the COVID-19 pandemic. That was the day the SBA PPP rescue relief effort began accepting applications from banks on behalf of their small business customers. Small businesses can’t survive weeks without demand.

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Minneapolis Fed President Kashkari Urges 4-6 Week ‘Hard’ Shutdown

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We’re going to see many, many more business bankruptcies, small businesses, big businesses, and that’s going to take a lot of time to recover from to rebuild those businesses and then to bring workers back in and re-engage them in the workforce,” he said.

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