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Boost your business success through networking Networking—or expanding people connections in your industry and community—is essential to improving as a business leader, learning about new business possibilities, and finding investors. Ethan Goldman, producer of Anchor Entertainment, says networking with people at his alma mater Tufts University has played a crucial role in his success. Full Story: Inc. (tiered subscription model) (5/23)
Challenges of poverty go beyond gentrification Displacement of residents is among the negative impacts of gentrification, a concept that has a long and complex history in American cities. "For low-income people, rates of displacement and evictions are similarly high in gentrifying neighborhoods as in neighborhoods defined by concentrated poverty and disinvestment," Benjamin Schneider writes. Full Story: Fast Company (tiered subscription model) (5/24)
Legislation & Regulation
Regional banks use reciprocal deposits to ease concerns Regional banks are increasingly turning to reciprocal deposits, breaking them down into parcels of $250,000 or less and transferring them among other lenders, which will keep the deposits fully insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. Such deposits reached a record $221 billion at the end of March, a significant rise from $158 billion at the end of the previous quarter, and the moves are seen as a bid to calm customers' concerns over the safety of their deposits. Full Story: Financial Times (5/24)
Debt ceiling talks hit impasse over spending cuts Ongoing negotiations to increase the U.S. debt ceiling have stalled, with key differences surrounding Republican-demanded spending cuts presenting a significant hurdle and the possibility of an unprecedented default looming. Despite serious economic implications, including a potential recession, negotiators appointed by President Joe Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., remain deadlocked, as Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen warns of possible cash shortages by early June. Full Story: Bloomberg (5/24)
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