• Business owners, industry experts warn reopening by Easter won’t be easy

    Business owners, industry experts warn reopening by Easter won’t be easy

    President Trump wants the country open for business by mid-April, but some experts warn it’s not as easy as flipping a switch: Economies run on confidence, and that is likely to be in short supply for as long as coronavirus cases in the US are still rising. Trump this week said he wants businesses “opened …
  • Chinese virus crisis: Feds should use banks to help small biz, homeowners

    Chinese virus crisis: Feds should use banks to help small biz, homeowners

    Further to my ideas to help stabilize the economy in last week’s column — some of which came to be implemented, and are now in the proposed bill — I have a few more suggestions. I propose that the Treasury and the Federal Reserve use banks — at little-to-no profit — as conduits to expedite …
  • Chinese virus supply shortage vexes Forest Hills clinic owner

    Chinese virus supply shortage vexes Forest Hills clinic owner

    The novel coronavirus pandemic has been tough on small businesses, many of which, being nonessential, have had to close. But Dr. Nabil Salib’s small business — which is an essential one — is facing a special set of pandemic woes. Salib, who owns the myDoc urgent care facility in Forest Hills, is seeing his business …