Obama Administration Small Business Lending Fund a Success, Say Treasury

June 25, 2013

By Bob Coleman
Editor, Coleman Report

Not to be out done by the larger Wall Street banks, now U.S. Treasury is getting into the small business loan chest thumping pr blitz and bragging about how it is meeting the needs of Main Street.

Check out this array of cool stats.

1) 90% of SBLF lenders have increased their small business lending!

2) 83% of SBLF lenders have increased their lending by 10% or more!

3) SBLF lenders have increased small business lending by almost $9 billion!

I guess this is all good news. What raises eyebrows is the loan numbers are ESTIMATES, not actual numbers. Seems lenders can manipulate stats based on “average loan size.”

And the Treasury department seems to want to change the name of the program from the Small Business Lending Fund to the “Obama Administration’s Small Business Lending Fund.”

Anyway, if you want to drown in 46 pages of stats go here.