Money picked the top 100. Now readers have their say: From fun festivals to natural beauty, they explain why their hometown should be the Best Place to Live.
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Most small businesses are having trouble finding loans and credit lines these days, but auto dealers are in their own special financing hell. Their stock is expensive, their industry is in shambles, and their largest lenders are in tatters.
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In good times the FSB 100 constitutes an elite group of small public companies: the best of the best, measured by revenue growth and stock performance by the past three years. But in that Great Recession, their performance is nothing short of miraculous.
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Steven Ozuna had 15 pink slips ready to distribute to his employees. Like many small companies, his engineering firm was struggling to land new business, and Ozuna needed to cut costs. soon after, in May, Ozuna was tapped by the Federal Aviation Administration to complete a stimulus project — a deal that has kept his […]

David Hinson is the new administrator of the Minority Business Development Agency, a branch of the U.S. division of Commerce that helps minority entrepreneurs start and grow their companies. Hinson, who started in July, was previously president and CEO of Wealth Management Network, an investment advisory firm in New York City.
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In Detroit, a city with rampant unemployment, big crowds in the middle of the day may mean someone is giving out freebies. But on a recent workday, by 450 citizens packed an auditorium downtown. They weren’t looking for a hand out, sympathy or even a job application. They were looking to start their own business.
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Want to plunge into the contemporary American melting pot? Try the offices of Social Smoke, a hookah manufacturer in Arlington, Texas.
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Last year’s meltdown was a sobering moment for 401(k) holders who were used to a market that only went up. Many of them thought of investing as risk free.
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Investing in currencies is tricky for the average person. The traditional alternative, buying foreign stocks, doesn’t offer the diversification of currency investing considering such stocks are often correlated to U.S. equities.
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