Episode Notes

Hey everybody, this is Gene Marks and welcome to The Hartford Small Biz Ahead podcast. This is my weekly podcast where I talk about certain issues and things that are going to be affecting you as a small business owner. And today I wanted to talk about government shutdowns. Now we might find some time between now and the middle of October, or even sooner that the government itself has to shut down. And there are lots of reasons why that is going on. The issue is this you're running a small business. We've been through this before. I mean, governments have shut down. We had back in 2019, 2018, 2013, 1996, 1995, and at least three other times since 1980. So this really isn't a new phenomenon. And when you speak to most, when I speak to most of the politicians that I interview and economists that are out there, many of them say, "Hey, this is all about politics and things are going to be worked out."