small businesses are bad for the economy

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So, you don't like giant corporate America and you don't like small business America. Got it.

 

Ha well it doesn't work quite like that, but I'm glad to see the backlash against small companies. They've been holier than thou for a while now, implying how much more valuable they are than the rest of Americans, and pshaw. There is a place for the small businessman, and for the trade worker, and for the teacher, and for the corporate executive, and for the scientist, and for the government worker, and for the fast-food flunkie. None of you are purer and more valuable than the next.

 

But they are the Job-creators (please, please, please let this word of the year. Its got that 'truthiness' feel to it).

 

But But But small business can make people a star




or a slob, depending on how you look at Triple D's

 

I knew it!

 

A Wal-mart for every ghetto in America, there is the secret for the recovery.

Why have so many small pop and mom liquor and gun stores when you can buy it all in Wal-Mart?

 

In a healthy economy, small businesses become large businesses.

In an unhealthy economy, small businesses fail to thrive, and never really grow up.

 

This has to be the stupidist thread ever, but lets test Daves little theory of correlation here. The claim is that small business is not good for job creation, so let's compare this number with the unemployment levels for these countries and sort them by lowest to highest unemployment:

Contry - unemplyment rate - share of small business
Norway 2.8 48.4
Denmark 4.2 44.4
Austria 4.3 48.7
Australia 5.2 53.1
Mexico 5.26 55.3
Netherlands 5.6 49.6
New Zealand 6.5 48.8
Germany 6.6 40.7
Sweden 6.8 45.4
Belgium 6.8 51.4
Finland 6.9 42.2
Italy 7.9 68.7
United Kingdom 8.1 38.9
Czech Republic 8.2 47.4
United States 9.1 34.1
France 9.6 44.7
Hungary 10.8 55.4
Poland 11.8 49.3
Portugal 12.1 64.7
Slovakia 12.98 47.2
Estonia 13.3 53.1
Lithuania 15.6 49.2
Greece 16.3 75.5
Latvia 16.5 50.6
Spain 20.89 62.6

Yes some of the clunkers correlate like Spain and Greece, but how do you explain the likes of Australia, Mexico, Lithuania and Slovakia?

Just putting these numbers into a spreadsheet I get a r squared of .181 which is much closer to a random pattern than a tight correlation.

 

If you remove the PIIGS and the USA, the percentage for "great" to "crappy" economies varies largely from 45-55, with the average a little bit over 50%. Drawing conclusions about this chart may be a little simplistic. Moreover, it's not linear: would you say the Dutch economy is that different than the Austrian? Is Australia's worse than, say, Slovenia? I'd say that this is a correlation not a causation. If we were to remove all non-Western European countries I think you'd be able to say certain things about the Western European economic system, but not the Oceania economic system, the North American, or any other part of the world.

That said, the way we are mesmerized with small business these days to the detriment of other parts of the country is a bad thing.

 

You went for regression first in order to test correlation??? Did you try Pearson's first???

 

You know, I don't like you very much, but this thread is:

 

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Basically I was turned on by circles but not to dizzy and I went 5.5 miles or just under. 31,200 feet or 1 hour and 25 minutes... Concussions and small business are beneficial... Any Questions?

 

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Verily, the perfect response to this thread...

 

The best thing about this post is that it has been edited.

 

That's why they say all those nice things. No need to blow kisses at the big boys, they're getting the goodies and they know it.

 

I didn't realize how much I missed you until you came back. Seriously.

 

There are at least two places in town where if you buy a Swisher, a homeless guy will follow you out to your car and politely ask you if you'd be kind enough to split the shell right now (since you're going to do it anyway) and give him the tobacco.

 

First they came for the Jews on Wall Street, but I was silent...

 

Always leave it to the Dirty Foreigner to go all Protocols on you.

 

We can’t all claim to be native born… and hell, I’m not in the other tribe.