SmallBusinessNewz

New Year's resolutions are often of a personal nature; people want to lose weight, become better husbands/wives/parents, or whatever.  But financial issues also get some attention, and in the event any small business owners want to clean up their credit card situations, the Federation of Small Businesses stands right behind them.

The FSB's sought-after result is a cap on interest rates.  It's easy to see how this would help small business owners dig themselves out of any monetary holes they happen to have fallen into.

Better still (since resolutions are infamously hard to keep, after all), the FSB's take is that just about everyone, and not just the affected owners, needs to play a role in achieving this goal.

According to a press release, "The FSB is . . . calling on the Government, the banks, local councils and consumers to play their part during the year by providing support to small businesses in fighting regulation, accessing finance and maintaining cash flow to buck the increasing trend of business closures."

That's not quite as easy a thing to shout as the phrase "Happy New Year," but hopefully we'll see the one concept leading to the other before too long.