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Only 8 of the Fortune 500's CEOs Are Black. A Government Loan Program Financed 70,242 Paths Around That Gate Last Year Alone.
Black executives hold just 8 of the Fortune 500's CEO seats. A separate, almost entirely different path to wealth and control runs through dry cleaners, laundromats, and HVAC companies instead -- financed by the SBA 7(a) loan program, which required just 10% down and approved $31 billion in loans in a single recent year.
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3.7 Million Americans Hold a Security Clearance. The Salary Premium Is Bigger Than Most Degrees.
Roughly 3.7 million Americans hold a security clearance, and the salary premium is real and large: professionals with a Top Secret/SCI cl...
This Site Argued a Dry Cleaner Can Beat a Startup. Here's a Lineman Who Proved It With a Laundromat.
Business media covers venture-backed founders at a scale wildly disproportionate to their real economic footprint, and the imbalance comp...
The US Economy Runs on $13.5 Trillion in Bank Loans. Venture Capital Is $339 Billion of That Picture.
US banks held $13.5 trillion in loans and leases in 2025. Venture capital, the instrument that gets nearly all the media attention, total...
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