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The Election That Misplaced Small Businesses
Retail // March 12, 2016

This week opened with Hector Barreto — the current Chair of the Latino Coalition and a former SBA Administrator from 2001-2008 – wondering what on Earth had happened to the economic message during this particular election season. Barreto notes that despite the fact that jobs...

Economic Issues May Signal Trump’s Pitfall
Payment Methods // February 24, 2016

Can anything stop Donald Trump? Maybe the U.S. economy. Thus far into the race toward the nomination(s) on both sides of the aisle, the focus is on the surprising (and that’s putting it mildly) surge the billionaire has enjoyed in a series of primaries —...

Merchants’ Eye View: South Carolina
Retail // February 19, 2016

As always, there is the story the numbers tell and the stories the people tell. And so PYMNTS went on the road again like Willie Nelson, to seek out the stories from the ground in South Carolina to get the view from the Store Front...