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After seven years, the financial crisis quietly ends for area banks

By   /  Friday, March 21st, 2014  /  Op/Eds, Opinion  /  Comments Off on After seven years, the financial crisis quietly ends for area banks

“Even the pessimists were thinking three years,” Community West CEO Marty Plourd told me. “No one expected the low-interest-rate environment to last this long,”

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Small-business sales make tentative recovery in region

By   /  Friday, December 14th, 2012  /  Small Business, Top Stories, Tri-County Economy  /  Comments Off on Small-business sales make tentative recovery in region

The number of small businesses in the Tri-Counties that have changed hands so far this year is up 4.2 percent compared to the first 10 months of 2011, but the recovery varies widely by county. Statistics from BizBen.com, a clearinghouse that connects buyers, sellers and brokers of small businesses and franchises, show that in Ventura Read More →

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Tri-county bankruptcies are on the decline

By   /  Friday, October 5th, 2012  /  Banking & Finance, Law, Top Stories, Tri-County Economy  /  Comments Off on Tri-county bankruptcies are on the decline

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Op/ed: Let’s look at the world as something other than scorched earth

By   /  Friday, September 21st, 2012  /  Op/Eds, Opinion  /  1 Comment

By Scott Harris on September 21, 2012 My wife and I recently spent a very enjoyable weekend in a small resort town in California. The town was beautiful, the people were great and the scenery was fantastic. As we drove in, we fell in love with the mountainsides, the deep forests with huge old-growth trees Read More →

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Timothy Geithner’s four simple rules for navigating global recovery

By   /  Friday, August 3rd, 2012  /  Columns, Opinion  /  Comments Off on Timothy Geithner’s four simple rules for navigating global recovery

LOS ANGELES — He is surprisingly slight of build, unflappably low-key, well-dressed and, of course, there is that full head of wavy brown hair. In short, Timothy Geithner has all of the proper accoutrements for the person he is — the 75th U.S. Secretary of the Treasury, a bureaucratic mandarin and President Barack Obama’s go-to Read More →

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Entrepreneur shares recession coping lessons

By   /  Friday, November 25th, 2011  /  Columns, Opinion  /  1 Comment

What I learned is that many baby boomer entrepreneurs have the same personal narrative.

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Cities will have to lead state’s recovery

By   /  Friday, October 21st, 2011  /  Columns, Opinion  /  Comments Off on Cities will have to lead state’s recovery

Californians are learning how to muddle through the recovery.

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