Dashboard: Are We Overstating the Damage to Small Businesses?
Despite what we’ve been reading about tariffs and immigration and inflation and health insurance, the macro economy has actually held up better than many economists expected over the past year. Unemployment is low, corporate profits are high, and the stock markets have been setting records. So, this week, I put the question to John Arensmeyer, CEO and founder of Small Business Majority: Are things really that tough for small businesses? Well, yes, says John. It’s not necessarily any one issue, he says. It’s the constant drip, drip, drip of many issues. In this week’s conversation, we tackle several of the big ones.