Episode Notes

Hey everybody, it's Gene Marks and welcome to this week's edition of the Hartford Small Biz Ahead podcast. Thank you so much for joining me. Hey, let's get right to the topic of the day. It has to do with small business optimism and inflation, and I wanna talk to you a little bit about some thoughts on dealing with inflation this year. So for starters, the National Federation of Independent Businesses (NFIB) just released their latest monthly small business optimism index, and it wasn't great. Optimism, they say fell to a more than 11 year low. I'm not like a super fan of surveys about optimism and confidence and sentiments because it's tough to really gauge that stuff, but I do have to say the NIB's survey, their report, it's been going on for like 50 years.

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