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This is CBSI in the world, a small business report with Gene Marks, a small business columnist

for the Guardian newspaper, UK and US edition, as well as the Philadelphia Inquirer.

Gene is back from London. He spent some time there happily, traveled around, and he also

learned that if you're going to start a small business, you want to be in USA and not

other countries. That right, Chi?

They missed a recession in the UK, John, as well as I'm told, which is good news.

I think when we talked about it before, I can mention it again, I was all over London,

and maybe it was the parts that I was at, so it's anecdotal.

But this thing you seem to be doing fine. I mean, the stores were open. It was certainly,

you wouldn't know that a pandemic had happened, but it was slower. There was a lot of

signs out for discounts on products, a lot of restaurants offering deals, a lot of that

going on. I saw a lot of empty seats in restaurants on nights where I would have thought

to see more crowds. So it did seem to me that things were slower in the UK than what

I remember it. But according to the numbers, they missed a recession this time, so you

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