{"id":3011,"date":"2013-01-19T02:00:19","date_gmt":"2013-01-19T10:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xbizx.com\/index.php\/3011\/business-world-not-immune-to-elaborate-hoaxes\/"},"modified":"2013-01-19T02:00:19","modified_gmt":"2013-01-19T10:00:19","slug":"business-world-not-immune-to-elaborate-hoaxes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xbizx.com\/index.php\/3011\/business-world-not-immune-to-elaborate-hoaxes\/","title":{"rendered":"Business world not immune to elaborate hoaxes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href='http:\/\/www.bing.com\/news\/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&#038;aid=&#038;tid=d57d00d42e814724ad32805cac582211&#038;url=http:\/\/www.boston.com\/business\/news\/2013\/01\/18\/business-world-not-immune-elaborate-hoaxes\/JyevzeWHmiJCPItByWGa9N\/story.html&#038;c=3tXpDRbm5CimoxN6OxJMZjgeCoIDmld-DZuyd4BejnM&#038;mkt=en-us'>Business world not immune to elaborate hoaxes<\/a><br \/>Notre Dame football players are not the only people who can be part of massive, elaborate hoaxes. The business world has also seen its fair share of impossible-to-believe scams. What the biggest businesses hoaxes and the still-developing Manti Te   o story  <\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href='http:\/\/www.bing.com\/news\/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&#038;aid=&#038;tid=d57d00d42e814724ad32805cac582211&#038;url=http:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/tampabay\/news\/2013\/01\/18\/business-for-sale-activity-slowly.html&#038;c=GeAaUFAUVrnh-FpkrSsU5-TkKBW_t2STs_C2Ut51q8U&#038;mkt=en-us'>Business-for-sale activity slowly crawling upward<\/a><br \/>Buying a business in Tampa will set you back $175,000. That was the median asking price of businesses for sale in the Tampa Bay area in the fourth quarter of 2012, according to data released by BizBuySell.com. For the same period in 2011, the price was  <\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href='http:\/\/www.bing.com\/news\/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&#038;aid=&#038;tid=d57d00d42e814724ad32805cac582211&#038;url=http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/brockblake\/2013\/01\/18\/lendio-why-business-owners-should-be-cheering-for-alternative-lenders\/&#038;c=ERlH6ryXWI5hFjHVAn3x_1f5KE9TI2WB8W6F0eFZXrY&#038;mkt=en-us'>Why Business Owners Should be Cheering for Alternative Lenders<\/a><br \/>From 2008 to 2011, business owners suffered. The economy crashed and bank lending to business owners came to a screeching halt. Most banks tightened their purse strings, while others got out of business lending altogether. According to the SBA Office of  <\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href='http:\/\/www.bing.com\/news\/apiclick.aspx?ref=FexRss&#038;aid=&#038;tid=d57d00d42e814724ad32805cac582211&#038;url=http:\/\/www.businessweek.com\/news\/2013-01-16\/business-groups-propose-raising-age-for-entitlement-benefits&#038;c=GLWwraB70WZ0bcHvUUrMM_12g3jP73_Wfxbu1rKSDhw&#038;mkt=en-us'>Business Groups Propose Raising Age for Entitlement Benefits<\/a><br \/>The Business Roundtable, which represents chief executives of major U.S. companies, proposed shoring up Social Security and Medicare by raising the eligibility age without increasing taxes on income subject to the Social Security payroll tax. For Social Se  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Business world not immune to elaborate hoaxesNotre Dame football players are not the only people who can be part of massive, elaborate hoaxes. The business world has also seen its fair share of impossible-to-believe scams. What the biggest businesses hoaxes and the still-developing Manti Te o story Business-for-sale activity slowly crawling upwardBuying a business in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.xbizx.com\/index.php\/3011\/business-world-not-immune-to-elaborate-hoaxes\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Business world not immune to elaborate hoaxes<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xbizx.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xbizx.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xbizx.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xbizx.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xbizx.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3011"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.xbizx.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3011\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xbizx.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xbizx.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xbizx.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}