The gap between politicians that support funding the U.S. Treasury's Community Development Financial Institutions Fund and those who don't may have become the widest ever last week

As is the case in many other states, small businesses continue to feel the freeze in New Jersey as their lines of credit and credit card balances have been slashed despite their ability to meet their obligations.

Credit unions are playing catch-up to banks when it comes to business deposit products and services. Every national bank and most community banks offer remote-deposit capture services for businesses both large and small.

Eighteenth century political theorist and philosopher Edmund Burke is credited with being the first to use the idea of "don't bite the hand that feeds you" in print.