• Washington needs to do more to help small businesses during coronavirus pandemic

    Washington needs to do more to help small businesses during coronavirus pandemic

    Washington is finally beginning to get it. The Federal Reserve has put forth bold initiatives, and followed up with action. The Treasury and the administration have also devised creative plans to go along with the Fed’s actions — and separately helped to develop a robust economic “time-out” package sufficient to help stabilize the economy for …
  • Chinese virus crisis: Feds should use banks to help small biz, homeowners

    Chinese virus crisis: Feds should use banks to help small biz, homeowners

    Further to my ideas to help stabilize the economy in last week’s column — some of which came to be implemented, and are now in the proposed bill — I have a few more suggestions. I propose that the Treasury and the Federal Reserve use banks — at little-to-no profit — as conduits to expedite …