NEW YORK - March 30, 2023  -- Raising capital to start a business can be challenging. Startups looking for funding need to work with professional investment firms or credit investors and fill out complex paperwork to file their applications.

Today, raising business funds is easier with crowdfunding, which allows a group of people from the general public to fund businesses. With the enactment of the Jobs Act, crowdfunding has become more popular and has opened doors of opportunities for startups to ask for support from the general public. To help startup owners find the right funding and establish their businesses the right way.

WASHINGTON — Today, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) is designating three entities and nine individuals, and identifying one presidential aircraft as blocked property, pursuant to Executive Order (E.O.) 14038. These designations build on sanctions imposed on individuals and entities in Belarus in response to the ongoing brutal crackdown against the pro-democracy movement and civil society surrounding the fraudulent August 2020 presidential election. These actions also underscore the United States’ willingness to hold the regime in Minsk to account for its complicity in the Russian Federation’s ongoing unjustified war of choice against Ukraine.

The recent collapse of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB), a regional US bank that funded start-up companies in the technology and innovation sector, has created a worldwide wave of financial instability.

Despite the efforts of US financial regulators to contain the potential damage by immediately providing full protection to the bank’s depositors, the collapse triggered a global dip in banking share prices.

China’s billions of dollars in global investments and infrastructure projects seem to be paying off politically and economically.

A little more than a century ago, most people in industrialised countries worked 60 hours a week – six ten-hour days. A 40-hour work week of five eight-hour days became the norm, along with increased paid holidays, in the 1950s.