Today’s Boston Globe has an interesting take on the state of small business in the country.Ā Reporters Erin Ailworth and Katie Johnston write that small businesses make up more than half of all private sector employment in the country, but: “The percentage of small-business owners feeling optimistic about the economy fell from 67 percent in […]
Itās been a crazy couple of weeks, with financial tremors continuing to shake-up the jagged economic landscape. Ā National GDP barely went up, Congress made an 11th hour deal to raise the debt ceiling, S&P downgraded the US credit rating anyway, and the Federal Reserve decided to hold interest rates steadyāat virtually nothingāfor the next two […]
It’s been a crazy couple of weeks on Wall Street.Ā First came the bad-ish news:Ā The GDP grew…but not by much.Ā Then came the good-ish news: Congress made an 11th hour deal to raise the debt ceiling and avert default…but it didn’t immediately solidify the country’s AAA credit rating.Ā Just yesterday, the stock market fell, […]
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