As the new evangelist for entrepreneurship, President Obama is finally on the right track. Mentioning “small business” 14 times in his State of the Union address last week, he pledged to increase small business lending and provide tax incentives to jump-start new jobs. More here: Obama’s big plan for small business (CNN)

Two of China’s biggest banks aggressively called back loans in the second half of January to fall into line with the government’s directive to slow lending, local media reported. View post: China banks call back loans to satisfy regulators (Budapest Business Journal)

These days the issue of paying back of the loans has become a matter of concern for the students. With the evils of recession in the market, this has acted as adding fuel to the already existing fire. Excerpt from: Student Loan: Waving off the heavy student loans (New Kerala)

• IMF’s new $102m loan is criticised by charities • UN trade and development body calls for debt write-off Haiti is sleepwalking towards a debt crisis because international help for the earthquake-hit country is being given in the form of new loans, anti-poverty campaigners are warning. Unctad, the United Nations’ trade and development body, which is leading international calls for...

Money repaid by Wall Street firms would go to community banks in effort to help companies add workers, president says President Barack Obama went on the road Tuesday to promote a new proposal that would take $30 billion repaid by bailed-out Wall Street institutions and use it to fund community bank loans to small firms. Excerpt from: Obama pushes loans for small firms (Chicago Tribune)

Comedian David Graham, St. Louis, was the special entertainment for the annual Abilene Area Chamber of Commerce banquet Monday at the Eisenhower Presidential Library and Museum. (Photo by Dave Bergmeier) Read this article: Banquet entertainment (Abilene Reflector-Chronicle)