The lesson for Main Street from the Walmart, Target inventory failures
Big box retailers bet wrong on inventory and big markdowns followed as inflation and Covid changed consumer spending patterns. Main Street can do better.
Self-made millionaire Bethenny Frankel on why good ideas are not enough to be successful in business
Bethenny Frankel, founder of SkinnyGirl, says she has always been full of good ideas, but that is never enough to be successful in business.
Why Grammy award-winning rapper Macklemore is making clothes for the golf course
Grammy award-winning rapper Macklemore is taking his newly-found passion for golf and building his own golf apparel company, Bogey Boys.
The Fed disagrees, but Main Street says ‘the recession is already here.’
Confidence hits all-time low in CNBC/SurveyMonkey Small Business Survey, as weak sales outlook and inflation worry a Main Street that says recession is here.
Federal Reserve’s increasing interest rate hikes put Main Street economy ‘dangerously close’ to edge of lending cliff
Many small business owners are facing lending costs they've never before experienced, just as the economy and consumer demand weakens.
Small businesses are still desperate for workers even as other companies slow hiring
While small business job growth is slowing, it's more because there are not enough workers to hire than business owners pulling back on hiring plans.
The rent crisis on Main Street just took a turn for the worse
The percentage of small business owners who said they could not make rent in August hit a record level for 2022, and hasn't been this...
Secret Service returns $286 million in fraudulent pandemic loans to the Small Business Administration
The Economic Injury Disaster loans returned to the Small Business Administration were obtained using fabricated information and stolen identities.
As Klarna and Affirm falter, a new breed of ‘buy now, pay later’ startups are stealing the spotlight
Venture capitalists are betting a new breed of startups from Europe will be the real winners in the crowded "buy now, pay later" space.