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JOB CREATION: Look to Entrepreneurs

Editor's note: Amy M. Wilkinson is a Senior Fellow at Harvard University Center for Business and Government and a public policy scholar at the Woodrow Wilson Center. She is writing a book on next generation leaders.

Washington (CNN) -- It's the oldest trick in the political playbook: Call together a "summit" of fancy people so you'll appear to be focused on work that must get done.

Thursday, the White...

By Amy M. Wilkinson

President Obama should stop chatting and start doing. We need jobs, and we know who creates them - small-business entrepreneurs. If we look at history, we learn an economic lesson worth repeating. Yet Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner and Small Business Administrator Karen G. Mills are still wondering what to do.

On Wednesday, the Treasury Department and Small Business Administration convened the Small Business Financing Forum to gather together...