Carol Roth

For being the backbone of the economy, small businesses certainly haven’t been treated with care.

Ever since the company formerly known as Facebook announced their name change to “Meta,” big brands from Walmart to Nike have been accelerating their strategy for the Metaverse and Web3.

House Speaker Pelosi was asked recently about the potential to ban members of Congress and their family members from owning individual stocks as a means to avoid such potential conflicts of interest.

The holiday season is always a critical time for many small business owners, but this year, by voting with your wallet, you can make an even bigger impact.

It’s not often that workers have outsized leverage, but a set of government decisions that turned the entire labor market upside down means that workers now have a historic opportunity to get that cash -- and they should, especially as everything is going to continue to get more expensive.

Over many decades, but accelerating greatly in the past two, the U.S. has been torn away from a free market economy and thrust toward one of central planning.

As the coronavirus pandemic hit the U.S. our government decided which businesses and workers were or were not “essential.” This wasn't based on science but on political clout and connections.

As more locales are emerging from government lockdown mandates and more individuals are getting vaccinated, business should be booming.

What have you been doing to celebrate National Small Business Week? Did you even KNOW it was Small Business Week?