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And Small Businesses See Ahead. Gene has taught me to pay... and small businesses see ahead.

Gene has taught me to pay very close attention to their mood, their confidence,

their flexibility and their optimism.

And right now, we have not even, it's not even mixed, it's we can handle this.

First let's talk about optimism.

It's down in September.

Everything we've said, Jean, says the problem is is inflation is there any other worry that

they have. Yeah I mean inflation continues to be the biggest issue with small

businesses and you know even though producer price index John you know you

fell yeah it's it's it was a handsome number yeah it's a great sign and overall

consumer prices are you are falling as well.

So it is a good sign.

What most people don't realize is that businesses are still trying to get their arms around this enormous historic rise in prices that occurred

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