http://pjmedia.com/eddriscoll/2012/12/18...the-day-2/

That chart seems to condradict logic in that during times of recession when lots of folks lose jobs you would think some of those folks would start up their own businesses. Therefore, there would be a spike in small business start ups.

I'm skeptical of any chart with no explanation, regardless of which side posts it. Right now, this is just lines on a page.

(12-20-2012 08:09 AM)Owl 69/70/75 Wrote:  I'm skeptical of any chart with no explanation, regardless of which side posts it. Right now, this is just lines on a page.

This is as far back as the references go

http://www.aei-ideas.org/2012/12/are-we-...p-america/

That's all I could find. Just not sure exactly what this portrays or what it means. Like 49er, my expectation would be that we have a lot more people free-lancing because of the economy, but I'm not sure how that data would be captured. I'm not sure how they define "firm." Maybe it excludes individual free-lancers. Sine the source is a bank, one thought is that maybe the defining point is requesting/getting a loan. Again, without more explanation of methodology and assumptions, it's hard to know exactly what we have here. And I find the policy recommendations in the AEI blog a bit surprising.