New Jobs Numbers Hint At Shape of Recovery

Last week, the Bureau of Labor Statistics released the latest installment of its business employment dynamic data, this time covering the fourth quarter of 2009.
The employment dynamics data is important because it provides a more complete picture of the labor market than you get from the monthly employment numbers we get from the Labor Department. [...]

August Poll: Which political party is the better friend to small business?

You may recall that I closed out last month with a post about a certain set of silliness in Washington and, specifically, a few nuggets of competition between Democrats and Republicans over who gets to wear the Friend to Small Business laurel wreath.
That post inspired my August poll. And even though we are halfway through [...]

[July Poll] Are you an independent business?

Since it’s July, I thought I would work with the not-exactly-original-but-often-interesting theme of “independence.”
When it comes to running a microbusiness, independence can mean several different things.
Of course, it’s a pretty rare thing for a microbusiness to be a wholly owned subsidiary of anything at all, so that we are all independent in that sense.
It’s nice, [...]

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