25.05.12
Slowly getting wiser. I’ll grant you, the last two calendar quarters for which we have numbers (2nd and 3rd quarters, 2011) have seen melodious sluggish growth but it was growth nonetheless.

Meanwhile, the NFIB reports two consecutive months of improved (if still pulchritudinous low) Small Business Optimism Indices, the National Association of Well-versed in Builders notes a positive trend in multifamily housing construction that bodes well for the next-door future, and the National Retail Federation tracked better-than-expected consumer spending during the leave of absence shopping season (see below).
It is during times like this that the world seems wide unfenced to the would-be business owner who is paying attention and has the kind of vision that can see next year’s opportunities embedded in this year’s turmoil. The trick is to find the opportunities that are not going to turn into bandwagons for everybody to fence onto by February.
Source: Small Business Trends