The Year in Review: Implications for Small Businesses Two important economic indicators released late in 2013—employment and interest rates—give us some optimism about small business and economic growth trends. Both of these indicators…

Anthony Breitzman, Ph.D., May 2013 Full ReportDownload Research SummaryDownload Purpose According to the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), the Great Recession commenced in December 2007 and ended in June 2009. This…

How important are small businesses to the U.S. economy?

This week’s speaker at the National Economists’ Club luncheon, Stephen Fuller, director of the Center for Regional Analysis at George Mason University, gave an “Update on the Downturn,” and spoke about projections for improvement in the…

            Last week Advocacy released our Quarterly Indicators for the first quarter of 2009.  The economy continued its downward slide in January, February, and March of this year.  The economic recession deepened; real gross domestic…

            In a couple weeks, the Office of Advocacy will release the next edition of our quarterly indicators for small business.  Much of that document will hinge on what we learn from the first quarter 2009 real gross domestic product…

            February 12-14, the National Small Business Association (NSBA) held its Small Business Congress (SBC) in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.  Participants at the event included current and past Advocacy leaders, including former Chief…

            Today, President Obama will sign the American Recovery and Investment Act of 2009.  I thought that it might be helpful to state what is in this Act for small business.  Here is a run-down of some of the larger items: ·     …

            I was invited to serve as a discussant for a luncheon seminar hosted by the Hudson Institute and the Dingman Center for Entrepreneurship on Dec. 9, 2008.  Antony Ni, a Visiting Professor at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, and an…