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May 1
Pawnee Announcement
Readers React to Pawnee Leasing Corporation
Temporary Suspension of Originations
By Christopher "Kit" Menkin, Editor
Marlin Sends out Press Release Net Loss $11.8M 1st Quarter
Credit Losses $52.1 Million, $30.4 million Increase from 12/2019
OnDeck Reports Q1 Net Loss of $59M
By Sean Murray, deBanked.com
Balboa Capital Opens Broker Division
Hires Viki Shamus to Run It (see New Hires for bio)
New Hires/Promotions in the Leasing Business
and Related Industries
When Will Things Return to Normal?
SmallBizDaily. com
Do It Now
By Brian Link
Tips for Building Your Company's LinkedIn Presence
Part II
FinTech #102 by Alex Vasilakos
Five Boldest Feature Debuts from Five Brilliant Filmmakers
The Sugarland Express(1974)/Reservoir Dogs (1992)
Citizen Kane (1941)/They Live by Night (1948) Badlands (1973)
Labrador Retriever Mix
Fort Collins, Colorado Adopt a Dog
Chart---COVID 19 Active/Recovered/Deaths
Passes 1 Million Cases and More
News Briefs---
Is there a Las Vegas-Silicon Valley coronavirus connection
from January tech trade show?
Florida has overtaken California as the US jobless claims capital
Hawaii, Kentucky, Georgia Hardest Hit
Salesforce is canceling all its events for the rest of 2020
and moving them online
San Francisco Bay Area’s Lyft
to cut nearly 1,000 jobs
Union leaders blast Parson for failing to do enough
to protect Missouri’s front-line workers
May Have Missed
Poem
Sports Brief----
California Nuts Brief---
"Gimme that Wine"
This Day in History
SuDoku
Daily Puzzle
GasBuddy
Weather, USA or specific area
Traffic Live----
May 4
Post a Free Classified Job Wanted
100 Word Maximum Free Listing
Top Ten Stories
April 27 - May 1
The Direction of Leasing News in the Pandemic
Email Conversion with Ralph Mango
North Mill Capital Finance Employees Filling Their Days
with Hard Work -- And Goodwill
By Don Cosenza, Chief Marketing Officer, CLFP, North Mill
What Could You Do in One Year?
The Ultimate Hire by Ken Lubin, ZRG Partners
More than One Way
Placard
Marlin Business Services' (MRLN) Q1 2020 Results
Earnings Call Transcript Highlights, www.seekingalpha.com
North Mill Schedules Important
Webinar this Week
Labrador Retriever
Minnetonka, Minnesota Adopt a Dog
Americans Split on Contact Tracing App
% of US Smartphone Users Would or Wouldn't
News Briefs---
Zero-percent Auto Finance Deals Hit Record in April
"It's a Buyer's Market"
Public companies received $1 billion
in stimulus funds meant for small businesses
City's proclamation requiring face masks in stores
and restaurants is amended after threats of violence
Dr. Deborah Birx calls protesters without masks
‘devastatingly worrisome’
May Have Missed
Poem
Sports Brief----
California Nuts Brief---
"Gimme that Wine"
This Day in History
SuDoku
Daily Puzzle
GasBuddy
Weather, USA or specific area
Traffic Live----
May 6
Success Stories During Covid-19
Sales Makes it Happen by Scott Wheeler, CLFP
Do It!
Placard
A Crisis in Sales Management
By Steve Chriest
Classes to Become Lease & Finance Professional
Update: 3 Classes Scheduled Online-the New Normal
Online Equipment Auction List
Thriving in the "New Normal"
Why Americans Wanted to Work Remotely Pre-Coronavirus
Top Reasons for Remote Working in 2019, U.S. Remote Workers
Labrador Retriever Mix
Birmingham, Alabama Adopt a Dog
30 Minute Free Webinar Wednesday 3pm EST
Update from North Mill Equipment Finance
News Briefs---
Dr. Anthony Fauci says no 'scientific evidence’ coronavirus
made in Chinese lab
Pence confirms coronavirus task force winding down
— but they forgot to tell Fauci
Coronavirus deaths projected to hit 3,000 per day
By June, internal Trump administration analysis says
Texas back in business?
Barely, y'all, as malls, restaurants empty
Trump wants coronavirus-hit companies
to ‘work it out’ with creditors, not use fed aid
Airbnb to cut almost 1,900 jobs
due to the ‘most harrowing crisis’
United Airlines to cut 30% of management in October
and braces pilots for changes as well
General Electric planning to cut
13,000 jobs in aviation unit
Disney earnings plummet more than 90%
as coronavirus wipes out more than $1 billion
May Have Missed
Poem
Sports Brief----
California Nuts Brief---
"Gimme that Wine"
This Day in History
SuDoku
Daily Puzzle
GasBuddy
Weather, USA or specific area
Traffic Live----
May 8
Today Meet Don Cosenza, CLFP, Chief Marketing Officer
North Mill Webinar 3:00pm - 3:45pm EST
Developing Strong Leaders for the Commercial
Equipment Finance and Leasing Industry
By Scott Wheeler, CLFP
New Hires/Promotions in the Leasing Business
and Related Industries
From Great to Mediocre (or worse)
By Steve Chriest
Sales Pitch
Cartoon
CLFP Company Membership Count
Two Employees or More
U.S. Trade Deficit Jumps Amid Downward Trend
Monthly U.S. Trade Deficit in Goods and Services Chart
COVID-19 paid leave tax credits
for small and midsize businesses
Mother's Day Edition: Stella Dallas/Claudine
Serial Mom/Coraline/Ricki and the Flash
by Leasing News' Fernando Croce
Great Pyrenees Mix
Norwalk, Connecticut Adopt-a-Dog
Classified Ads---Employment Web Sites
jooble.org Added to List
News Briefs---
Papa John’s Sees Highest Sales Month in Company’s History
In April, American Stories Nationwide Grew 27 Percent
Uber cuts 3,700 in biggest SF tech layoffs during coronavirus
14% of its total staff
Trump administration rejects CDC guidance
on reopening US amid coronavirus
Where the Small Business Relief Loans Have Gone
with Charts
Push for Profits Left Nursing Homes Struggling to Provide Care
were particularly ill equipped and understaffed
No pro sports in California this year? Newsom says
games will have to wait for COVID-19 vaccine
May Have Missed
Poem
Sports Brief----
California Nuts Brief---
"Gimme that Wine"
This Day in History
SuDoku
Daily Puzzle
GasBuddy
Weather, USA or specific area
Traffic Live----
May 11
Looking for Information on
Your Leasing Solution, LLC
Post a Free Classified Job Wanted
100 Word Maximum Free Listing
Top Ten Leasing News
May 4 - May 8
Leasing News Complaints Bulletin Board
BBB Ratings Updated May 2020
Ending the Crisis in Sales Management
By Steve Chriest
'Our life is in danger'
Hawaii battles record unemployment
Pointer/Mix
Chicago, Illinois Adopt a Dog
Eleven Attorneys Against Evergreen Abuse
Help in Leasing News’ Bulletin Board Complaint Issues
News Briefs---
More than five years of truck employment growth
erased in one month
97 Sweet Tomatoes and Souplantations to Close Permanently
Salad Bars/Buffett May be Thing of the Past
Some blame meatpacking workers, not plants
for virus spread
Pork Chops vs. People: Battling Coronavirus
in an Iowa Meat Plant
SF doctor, returning from helping in NY,
shocked by full United flight
More than 12,000 Catholic churches in the U.S.
applied for PPP loans – and 9,000 got them
Coronavirus updates: Unemployment could top 20%;
health officials to quarantine; Obama says response a 'disaster'
Top JPMorgan Investment Officer: It Will Take '10 to 12 Years'
for U.S. Employment Levels to Return
Elon Musk sues, threatens to move Tesla out of California
over coronavirus order shutting down Fremont factory
Why is the Stock Market Still Going Up?
21 million Americans Lost their Job, But Stock Market Up
You May have Missed---
In the early days of the pandemic, the U.S. turned down
an offer to manufacture millions of N95 masks in America
Sports Brief----
California Nuts Brief---
"Gimme that Wine"
This Day in History
SuDoku
Daily Puzzle
GasBuddy
Weather, USA or specific area
Traffic Live----
May 13
"Your Leasing Association" is not "Leasing Solutions, LLC"
Steve Geller, CLFP, 20 Years in Business
Rapid Finance, Bethesda, Maryland
Fora Financial Asset, NY, NY
Rating Changes by Kross Bond Rating Agency
No Longer taking Broker/Discounting Business
plus Leasing Companies Out of Business updated
When It's Time to Move On
The Ultimate Hire by Ken Lubin, ZRG Partners
Candid Comments by Industry Originators
Sales Makes it Happen by Scott Wheeler, CLFP
Chart: The Industries Worst Affected
by the COVID-19 Job Crisis
April Money Anxiety Index Jumped 30.2 Points
Growing Concern Duration and Severity Economic Crisis
5 Takeaways: e-Signatures
and e-Leasing in Equipment Finance
Highlights from the May 6 ELFA Webinar
Labrador Retriever
Bethesda, Maryland Adopt a Dog
News Briefs---
Alameda County orders Tesla’s Fremont plant
to stop production
Los Angeles County likely to extend lockdown
through July
California malls, offices get Newsom’s OK to reopen,
but San Francisco Bay Area’s closures can stay in place
Five takeaways from Anthony Fauci’s
and health officials’ testimony
Pork exports to China soar
even as coronavirus shuts meat plants
Coronavirus airport screening didn’t stop
virus in California, says CDC
Hyatt Hotels announces 1,300 layoffs worldwide
Plus cut corporate pay, employees, board members
You May have Missed---
Editorial: Musk, Trump COVID-19 responses
put money above health
Sports Brief----
California Nuts Brief---
"Gimme that Wine"
This Day in History
SuDoku
Daily Puzzle
GasBuddy
Weather, USA or specific area
Traffic Live----
May 15
A Posting to Our Employees Today
Chris Enbom, CLFP
The Vital Importance of Social Distancing – Chart
How Reduction in Social Contact Can Reduce Spread
New Hires in the Leasing Business
and Related Industries
DBRS Morningstar Places 10 Amur Equipment Finance
Securities Under Review with Negative Implications
Chesswood Posts $19.8 Million Loss 1st Quarter
Reports on Pawnee/Staffing and Expenses
4 Reasons Top Tech Told Employees
to Work from Home Until 2021
By Derek Loosvelt
Covid-19 Cases per Million Inhabitants Location Chart
Confirmed COVID-19 Case per Million Population Size
Should I Stay or Should I Go? Chart
Percent of Respondents to Avoid after Restrictions Lift
Tabu (1931), Gertrud (1964), 7 Women(1966)
L'Argent (1983), Eyes Wide Shut (1999)
Five Great Director's Final Films/Fernando Croce
Labrador Retriever
Chicago, Illinois Adopt-a-Dog
News Briefs---
Weekly jobless claims total 2.981 million,
bringing coronavirus tally to 36.5 million
Video shows how quickly coronavirus
can spread at a buffet restaurant
Tesla employees who fear coronavirus
could likely keep claiming unemployment
Trump's rebuke of Fauci encapsulates rejection
of science in virus fight
Multimillion-dollar food bank delivery contracts
go to firms with little experience
This Is Huge: Twitter CEO Says
Employees Can Work From Home ‘Forever’
Google Will Let Employees Work From Home
Until The End Of 2020
Broadway Theaters Will Remain Dark
At Least Through Labor Day
You May have Missed---
UK finance brokers’ deals collapse in March
as small businesses confidence wanes
Sports Brief----
California Nuts Brief---
"Gimme that Wine"
This Day in History
SuDoku
Daily Puzzle
GasBuddy
Weather, USA or specific area
Traffic Live----
May 18
Post a Free Classified Job Wanted
100 Word Maximum Free Listing
Top Ten Leasing News
May 11 - May 15
Balboa Capital Gets Excellent Review over Other Companies
By DBRS Morningstar Confirms Three Securitizations
Three Reasons Companies Can't Hire Top Talent
The Ultimate Hire by Ken Lubin, ZRG Partners
When Fishermen Cannot Go to Sea
Placard
Ralph Mango Remembers the Start of FinTech
AT&T Leasing Services, Pleasanton, California
Jeff Rudin, Quail Capital, Two Dogs
One from Leasing News Adopt a Dog
Now, Zoom is Worth More than
the Top Seven Airlines Combined
Labrador Retriever/Mixed
Costa Mesa, California Adopt a Dog
Channel Partners Capital Webinar
Free - May 20, Wednesday, 3:00pm ET
News Briefs---
Coronavirus vaccine could come from California,
with no shot needed
Fed Chairman Powell warns US recovery could stretch
through end of 2021
Hawaii discourages tourists from coming to the state
through at least the end of June
Coronavirus will end the golden age
for college towns
Amid lockdown dispute,
Musk says he will move Tesla out of Calif.
Exclusive: United Airlines only needs 3,000
of 25,000 flight attendants in June - sources
Chick-fil-A surpasses Burger King,
Taco Bell on best-selling list
You May have Missed---
Coronavirus economy: Remote workforces may become
San Francisco Bay Area new normal, 1 of 6 Companies report
Sports Brief----
California Nuts Brief---
"Gimme that Wine"
This Day in History
SuDoku
Daily Puzzle
GasBuddy
Weather, USA or specific area
Traffic Live----
May 20
Channel Partners Capital Webinar
Free – Today, May 20, Wednesday, 3:00 pm ET
Is America Reopening
too early?
It's a Numbers Game
Sales Makes it Happen by Scott Wheeler, CLFP
Time
The Ultimate Hire by Ken Lubin, ZRG Partners
If You Thought Toilet Paper was Crazy…
Placard
Trucking Has Likely Bottomed, Recovery Will Be Slow
By James Menzies, Editor, Today’s Trucking
Trailer Orders 97% Down from March
98% Down Same Month Last Year
Credit reports are now free, every week
By Cathlin Tully, Federal Trade Commission
Labrador Retriever
Highland Park, Illinois Adopt-a-Dog
Free Thursday Webinar on TV Value
Mastering Time Value of Money Calculations
Thursday, May 21 11:00am - 12:00pm PDT
News Briefs---
Stanford finds no COVID-19 infections in 2019 swabs
analysis 1,700 stored specimens
Uber cuts 3,000 more jobs
as coronavirus devastates ride-hailing
Layoffs jolt Airbnb, YMCA San Jose
Planned layoffs in Bay Area approach 30,000 mark for May
Pier 1 Imports to close all 540 stores
after 58 years
JCPenney to permanently close 242 stores
amid bankruptcy
Walmart's $3 billion experiment with Jet is over
as Walmart e-Commerce Sales Jump 74% 1st Q
State Farm cuts auto rates by $2.2 billion as Americans
continue to stay home during the COVID-19 pandemic
Tesla tells employees Fremont factory has approval
to restart this week
You May have Missed---
For 2020 grads, jobs that were plentiful as semester started
vanished as it ends
Sports Brief----
California Nuts Brief---
"Gimme that Wine"
This Day in History
SuDoku
Daily Puzzle
GasBuddy
Weather, USA or specific area
Traffic Live----
May 22
Equipment Broker School Sign Ups Surged
Includes report MCA, Funders, Business Loans, Leasing Marketplace
Cannabis Could Prevent Coronavirus Infection,
Claims Canadian Study
New Hires/Promotions in the Leasing Business
and Related Industries
U.S. Manufacturing Output Takes Biggest Hit in 100 Years
Vehicle Production May Change the May Report
Fixed Bayonets/The Train/Heartbreak Ridge
The Messenger/Fury---Memorial Day Edition
By Leasing News' Fernando Croce
Poodle
Rochester, New York Adopt-a-Dog
Leasing/Finance/Business Loan Schools
Several Have Many Long Term Programs
News Briefs---
US Workers Have Lost $1.3 Trillion in Income During Pandemic
Austin, Raleigh, San Jose to recover fastest/ not Detroit & Cleveland
NFIB Survey: Majority of Small Businesses
Have Received PPP Loan Funding
Millions miss credit card, car loan payments
amid coronavirus crisis
No tourism means millions in budget cuts
for St. Louis tourism office
Ford forced to halt production at two plants
after employees test positive for Covid-19
Sears' survival is in doubt
the coronavirus pandemic could be the end
Social distancing a week earlier could have saved
36,000 American lives, study says
A quarter of Americans are hesitant about a coronavirus
vaccine - Reuters/Ipsos poll
Zuckerberg: 50% of Facebook employees may
soon permanently work remotely
U.S. Securities And Exchange Commission Launches
Investigations Into PPP Loans
‘Hero’ Costco Worker Hailed After Showdown
With Irate Shopper Over Mask Policy
You May have Missed---
These 30 US cities may be on the verge of a
coronavirus pandemic-driven housing crisis
Sports Brief----
California Nuts Brief---
"Gimme that Wine"
This Day in History
SuDoku
Daily Puzzle
GasBuddy
Weather, USA or specific area
Traffic Live----
May 26
Free Classified Job Wanted
100 Word Maximum Free Listing
Top Ten Leasing News
May 11 - May 15
Top Six Leasing/Finance Company Websites
in North America
Chart - Which Industries Are Best Geared
Toward Remote Working
If it's safe to mail Tax Refunds...
Placard
Be Prepared for What May be a Bankruptcy Lifeline
for Small Businesses to Survive COVID-19
Site Inspection Services List
Updated
German Shepherd
Orange County, California Adopt a Dog
One of the Original Leasing News Advisors
San Jose radio legend Bob Kieve dies
News Briefs---
Most publicly listed companies keep PPP loans
424 public companies were granted loans totaling $1.35 billion
Wealthiest Hospitals Got Billions in Bailout
while sitting on more than $100 billion in cash
Lufthansa to Receive $10 Billion Bailout
German government will take a 20 percent stake
Hertz Files for Bankruptcy after 16,000 Employees
Were Let Go and CEO Made Over $9 Million
How Many of JC Penney's 90,000 Workers Will Have Jobs?
Most of J.C. Penney’s employees work in stores
North Carolina Reports Highest Daily Coronavirus Infection
Increase as State Enters Phase 2 of Reopening
At least 20 states revise absentee voting rules
how voting will be conducted in the coming months
You May have Missed---
Want to buy a used car?
Rental car companies are offering up some good deals
Sports Brief----
California Nuts Brief---
"Gimme that Wine"
This Day in History
SuDoku
Daily Puzzle
GasBuddy
Weather, USA or specific area
Traffic Live----
May 28
Good News! ELFA Monthly Leasing and Finance Report
April Down only 8% Month-to-Month 7% YOY April, 2019
By Christopher Menkin, Editor
New Hires/Promotions in the Leasing Business
and Related Industries
The Best Originators Pivot
Sales Makes it Happen by Scott Wheeler, CLFP
Federal Reserve Beige Book May, 2020
Mezza Mezza
No Shows, No Shirt, No Service
Not a Problem - Placard
How Vaccines Eradicated Common Diseases
Chart - 20th Century and 2019 Morbidity
5 Takeaways: Operational Resiliency
for the Pandemic and Beyond
ELFA Webinar Provides Tools and Resources
French Actor Michel Piccoli (1925-2020) Finest
Contempt/Belle de Jour/Wedding in Blood
La Belle Noisense/We Have a Pope
Fernando Croce Recommendations
Shepheard/Mixed
Washington, D.C. Adopt-a-Dog
15 Brokers Are Chosen to Receive One Year of Membership
from American Association of Commercial Finance Broker Webinar
News Briefs---
Dr. Anthony Fauci on How America Can Avoid
a Second Wave of the Coronavirus
Boeing cutting more than 12,000 U.S. jobs
with thousands more planned
Amtrak to cut up to 20 percent of workers
as coronavirus crushes ridership
Tuesday Morning files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection
citing coronavirus, Close 230 of 687 stores
Fauci says he thinks a coronavirus vaccine
is still on track for the end of 2020
You May have Missed---
Las Vegas to Open Strip. What are the Odds?
A Socially Distanced Las Vegas?
Sports Brief----
California Nuts Brief---
"Gimme that Wine"
This Day in History
SuDoku
Daily Puzzle
GasBuddy
Weather, USA or specific area
Traffic Live----
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