It happened: Silicon Valley Bank sold. Well, at least part of it. The bank’s deposits, loans, and 17 branches — scheduled to reopen today — were snagged by First Citizens BancShares, a Raleigh-based bank. (About $90 billion of assets still remain with the Federal...

There’s an inbox full of good news to take in this morning.First, we didn’t die from the 53-year-old Russian spacecraft that was hurtling uncontrolled towards Earth this weekend. Kosmos 482 finally crashed into the Indian Ocean after failing to land on Venus in...

It's Monday the 20th, as I put this together, and many of our Los Angeles County clients and friends are gearing up for a very different kind of holiday week.I'm very aware that while the holidays are a time of joy for many, they are just as often a time of pain for a...

An unfortunate thing about being a business owner sometimes is that you are at the crosshairs of the changing winds of the culture. And these past ten years, the very polarized political environment has put some pressures on businesses to align with different...

I have to apologize to all of my Los Angeles County clients for the sheer volume of tax-centric writing I've been doing the last few weeks and months.Normally, I like to write on other topics (in addition to the tax-related stuff) ... but I cannot emphasize enough how...

Everywhere I turn there’s a Los Angeles County business with a “Now Hiring” sign in the window. Are you seeing this too? Staffing is an issue in every industry across the country. Part of that? Making money isn’t the only reason people want a job. 2020 certainly...

Less than two weeks remain until the 2024 presidential election. While Elon Musk is making headlines with his million-dollar-a-day prize for swing-state voters (sign a petition, become a millionaire — interesting tactic and a possibly illegal one)... what you...

Maybe I'm writing this today because we're very much feeling the end-of-year crunch here at Team Quinones & Co., Inc..Really, we only have a few business days left before 2020 is in the rearview. Yes, my heart wants that to happen YESTERDAY, but my business brain...

With the passage of the American Rescue Plan Act AND the CARES Act, the government is seemingly trying to go "full Oprah" with all of the credits, grants, and such that they are slinging out to Los Angeles County small businesses...And while the media headlines are...

Doing business in the summer of 2020 sure ain't easy.I have Los Angeles County clients all over the spectrum -- some whose businesses are on their last legs because of social restrictions and lockdowns, some who are hanging steady, and some who have found ways to...