With practically no notice, businesses shut down due to shelter-in-place and quarantine orders. Businesses that could, moved employees to telework solutions, almost overnight. And suddenly, we discovered teleworking worked even better than...

Ruth’s Chris became the poster child for how not to get a loan quietly from the SBA. They had 5,740 employees (when Congress said you could only have 500 and qualify) and...

The news has been full of all the things that went wrong with the PPP program. It was begun as a way for small business owners to get through a patchy few...

There have been days when I was ready to just give up on running my own business. Would it be easier to just collect a paycheck? Show up, do my work and...

The one thing certain in life, beside death and taxes, is change. Sameness is an illusion. Time changes all of us. Circumstances change us. The economy changes us. Illness and death of...

There is a lot of discussion right now about unemployment. Who is getting it and doesn’t want to go back to work? Who is supposed to get it and still hasn’t gotten...

The definition of a recession is a period where economic growth declines for two consecutive quarters. The GDP (gross domestic product) does now for a minimum of 6 months in a row....

If you’re counting on the government bailing out your small business, you may be waiting a long time. If you’re lucky, you may get a small loan that may or may not...