#SmallBusinessAmerica: The economy is not bad. @GeneMarks @Guardian @PhillyInquirer
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🗓️ 27 January 2024
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https://genemarks.medium.com/fellow-republicans-its-time-to-admit-that-the-us-economy-isn-t-bad-c622088f2ba2
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| 0:35.0 | we move towards what's in it for small business. |
| 0:38.0 | We're recovering from the pandemic. |
| 0:40.0 | Is it holding, Gene, because there was that burst of excitement in 22 and then all of a |
| 0:46.4 | sudden recession recession talk and we became defensive well you, we're having this big debate among people that track small business activity. |
| 0:59.0 | President Biden has been saying, you know, he's been taking credit for the fact that almost 15 million new businesses have been |
| 1:05.4 | started since he took office. And he took over a trend of new businesses that exploded during the pandemic. And I did my analysis of those numbers |
| 1:14.8 | and my conclusion was that the great majority |
| 1:17.8 | of these businesses, 80 to 90 percent of them, |
| 1:20.5 | seemed to be independent businesses, |
| 1:22.4 | side gigs, freel freelancers Uber drivers people selling on |
| 1:26.2 | Etsy I mean it's great I mean it's you know entrepreneurs was wonderful but |
| 1:31.3 | these are not like the next you know air bambies or you know or |
| 1:35.2 | sales force dot town I mean these are just very independent people well you know |
| 1:39.6 | there's up there's some people that disagree with me. |
| 1:44.3 | Some economists have dug into some of the data |
| 1:47.3 | and they say that there are more employer-owned startups |
| 1:52.0 | than I'm giving credit for and just this past week, Yelp, the big |
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