COVID changed everything. From consumption patterns to communication standards, the idea that changes resulting from the events of 2020 and 2021 would disappear as soon as a vaccine was developed has been proven drastically shortsighted. For example, with the U.S.’s great post-pandemic reopening now well...
The stimulus payments may not have done much to, well, stimulate the economy at large. A recent report by the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) finds that recipients of the initial $2.2 trillion in stimulus checks tended to use those payments to bolster their savings or pay...
In girding for battle, it’s critical to stock up on supplies, on weapons. To that end, in the United States, nonfinancial business debt surged in the first quarter as companies took on funding to grapple with the mounting effects of the coronavirus. In a report...
If there was any doubt that the U.S. is in a recession, the nation’s scorekeepers made it official on Monday (June 8). “The unprecedented magnitude of the decline in employment and production, and its broad reach across the entire economy, warrants the designation of this...
August 18, 2024
Many small businesses are still grappling with the best ways to use generative artificial intelligence (AI). But as The New York Times (NYT) reported Sunday (Aug. 18), generative AI, or GenAI, has been a “game changer” for some small business owners, helping them do chores like write code, edit copy and understand legal complexities and […]
October 28, 2022
COVID changed everything. From consumption patterns to communication standards, the idea that changes resulting from the events of 2020 and 2021 would disappear as soon as a vaccine was developed...
June 08, 2020
If there was any doubt that the U.S. is in a recession, the nation’s scorekeepers made it official on Monday (June 8). “The unprecedented magnitude of the decline in employment...
May 13, 2020
The ongoing coronavirus pandemic will cause the death of more than 100,000 small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs), triggering a tsunami of bankruptcies nationwide, new research shows. The average business has...
