Recap: Local Leaders Roundtable Tours New Online Resources
The Local Leaders Roundtable met on April 8 for What’s New at AMIBA: New Resources Resources are back! For those that used AMIBA’s resource library before, you’ll be delighted to see documents organized in easy-to-use formats. For those new to AMIBA Resources, you’re...Independent Businesses Launch Coalition to Fight Monopoly Power
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Virgil McDill, vmcdill@ilsr.org, 202.294.9187 Independent Businesses Launch Coalition to Fight Monopoly Power Small Business Rising Brings Together Over 20 Independent Business Organizations To Call on Congress and the Administration to...
Local Tennis Club Beats the Monopoly
In today’s US economy a business sector is monopolized when a small number of the big guys work together with price-fixing or other anti-competitive practices that results in the closing down of thousands of small independent businesses.
Number of banks shrink by 68%, small business loans suffer
PRESS RELEASE Contact: Frank Knapp Jr. 803-600-6874 fknapp@scsbc.org Columbia, SC, March 23, 2021 — The number of commercial banks has decreased 68% since 1980. Only 4,600 banks exist today because “many smaller sized banks have disappeared during this period, via...
Monopolies are Running the Show
Do you remember playing Monopoly as a kid? It begins with that fun, anything-is-possible, the sky-is-the-limit feeling mixed with a little “This time, I will CRUSH my sister”? The first several turns around the board, as players land on properties and decide whether...