Become a Patron! Economic Injury Disaster Loans, first introduced by the 2020 CARES Act, are a special program of the Small Business Administration designed to reach the smallest business, including sole proprietors and platform workers, who may not have been able to fulfill the initial requirements of the larger Paycheck Protection Program (although many of those … [Read more...] about My successful Economic Injury Disaster Loan modification
Archives for February 2022
Inflation-proofing your life
Become a Patron! Life is lived in nominal dollars I wrote last year about the fuzzy thinking I saw surrounding the topic of inflation. Inflation, properly understood, is an economy-wide increase in prices driven by too much money chasing too few goods, not when an early freeze destroys the Florida orange crop and raises the price of orange juice by 20 cents (drink apple juice … [Read more...] about Inflation-proofing your life
The even newer broadband discount
Become a Patron! Today's topic is a little bit of a weird one, but it's valuable and widely-available enough that I wanted to make sure readers were aware of it. A lot of folks are probably aware one way or another of a federal program that was spun up in the mid-1990's called "Lifeline." This program provided basically free basic phone and internet access to low-income … [Read more...] about The even newer broadband discount