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Denver’s Most Pressing Business Challenges and How I Overcome Them – By Dr Connor Robertson

When I meet with business owners and professionals in Denver, one of the first things we talk about is not opportunity but challenge. This city is full of energy and growth, but it’s also full of obstacles that can make progress difficult. The truth is, Denver is not an easy market and that’s exactly what makes it so rewarding to work in. As Dr Connor Robertson, through my consulting work and my…

Denver’s Most Pressing Business Challenges and How I Overcome Them – By Dr Connor Robertson

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The Future of Denver’s Business Landscape: An Expert Analysis by Dr Connor Robertson

Denver has quickly become one of the most closely watched cities in the United States. With its mix of rapid growth, shifting housing patterns, and the ongoing debate around short-term rentals, the city sits at a crossroads. Understanding Denver’s future requires not only a look at the numbers, but also the context of how policy, community needs, and business trends intersect. Dr Connor…

The Future of Denver’s Business Landscape: An Expert Analysis by Dr Connor Robertson

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Navigating Uncertainty: The Top Concern for CEOs in 2024

Heading into a rather busy week, I took inventory of stuff to write about this week, trying to organize in case of any other developing news this week, particularly coming out of the Federal Reserve meetings. Personally, though inflation remains a bit sticky and perhaps, even on a slight upward trend due to rising energy costs, I don’t see the Fed raising rates. The good news is that capital…

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Not Just Senior Living...Hospitals Too

Lately I’ve written a fair amount (multiple articles) regarding the economic conditions in senior living/post-acute care. The current economic headwinds of rising capital costs/interest rates, labor scarcity, rising costs due to labor scarcity and commodity inflation have caused providers to rethink many operating assumptions. Margins have eroded and often, decisions about additional volume via…

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3 Essentials for Developing Successful Social-Equity Partnerships

3 Essentials for Developing Successful Social-Equity Partnerships

Social equity has become one of the most salient topics within the business community in the past two years—a movement catalyzed by nationwide protests against systemic racism in 2020. Although nearly 70 percent of adult-use states have developed social-equity and reinvestment programs to address the lasting consequences of the war on drugs and the lack of racial diversity in the industry, most…

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SAFE Banking Would Be A Game Changer For The Cannabis Industry

SAFE Banking Would Be A Game Changer For The Cannabis Industry

As expected, the SAFE Banking Act has officially been reintroduced in Congress. If this passes, banks and financial institutions will be legally allowed to conduct business with state legal cannabis companies. However, there is one major distinction between this year’s legislation and that of the past few sessions. With Democrats now in control of both houses of Congress, this is the first time…

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Curbing the dangers of underground lending in Asia

By Penny Prabha and Minoli Ratnatunga

At some point, most of us have to borrow. In Asia like anywhere else, access to capital is essential to help people invest in their futures and improve their lives – to pay school fees, perhaps, or buy fertilizer to increase crop yield. But the capital can come at a cost that would seem imprudent or even extortionate.

Banks often deny loans to poor households and small entrepreneurs, by and large an unprofitable population for conventional lenders. Asia’s poor typically want to borrow small amounts of money, and banks incur high transaction costs in lending to them. For many low-income people, especially those living in remote areas, the only available option is to deal with a moneylender or a loan shark. In other words, go “underground.”