After a brief hiccup over a government shutdown, the small-business economy across America is back humming, according to the latest Small Business Economic Trends (SBET) report released today. Now, it remains to be seen how much damage California policymakers can do to it with purposely self-inflicted wounds.
Federal policies have always prevailed over state ones, and, right now, especially, California small-business owners are delighted to have it that way. Today’s SBET showed small-business optimism back to pre-government-shutdown record highs.












