Stimulus for the Rest of Us (Part 1)
March 22, 2009 by Dr. Letitia Wright
Filed under Featured Articles, Wright Ideas
After 56 days in office as the 44th president, Obama has done some work on making life easier for the small business owner. Everone is talking about the stimulus plan and how the small business owner can get in on it.
A lot of people are trying to figure out how to ‘get some stimulus money’. Impacts from the $787 billion stimulus package, the tax breaks from new home buyers to renewable energy, are still rolling out.
On Monday, Obama unveiled his $15 billion plan to inject life into the credit market to help small businesses. The plan calls for $730 million of the stimulus plan to reduce lending fees and increase loan guarantees for small business to 90 percent. The plan also will provide banks $15 billion in hopes of loosening the credit market and increasing lending to small businesses. However, economic plans don’t take effect overnight, and the payoff may not be seen in the markets until next year.
Also, that part of the plan may not help those in trouble. People are not getting the loans because of credit issues and financial problems, not because the bank says they have no money!
If the effects are not going to be seen until 2010, what do we do for the next 9 months?
Right now loan fees are being waived and people are hoping that the taxes will not be raised for the small business owner. Banks will have to report quarterly on how much money they lent out if they received government assistant. Well Fargo recently announced new loans for consumers and commercial loans and did not take government assistance when it took over Wachovia Bank.
Private money is actually more available than Bank money. You can learn about this type of lender here: http://budurl.com/fz2t
Here is my question to you-
Do you know anyone who was turned down because the bank did NOT have money to lend?