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Leading in Trust, Underdog in Finance

by John Crawford on May 26, 2020.

“Now I am going to read you a list of institutions in American society. Please tell me how much confidence you, yourself, have in each one — a great deal, quite a lot, some or very little?” Ok, close your eyes. Pretend you didn’t just see the exhibit at the top of this blog. How...

On Local Stimulus and You

by John Crawford on May 20, 2020.

Main Street is reeling and the pressure on small and medium-sized businesses (“SMBs”) is not going to let up anytime soon. One study has shown that “a combined 63 percent [of SMBs]  have either zero cash reserves (32.4 percent) or enough cash for a short-duration event (30.7 percent).”[i] There will be no quick fix, but...