{"id":12094,"date":"2011-02-08T13:38:43","date_gmt":"2011-02-08T18:38:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/?p=12094"},"modified":"2016-09-20T08:18:30","modified_gmt":"2016-09-20T12:18:30","slug":"small-biz-confidence-moves-higher-what-about-spending","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/2011\/02\/08\/small-biz-confidence-moves-higher-what-about-spending\/","title":{"rendered":"Small Biz Confidence Moves Higher &#8211; What About Spending?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There was a good read into the potential future moves by small businesses that was part of today&#8217;s release of the NFIB Small Business report.<\/p>\n<p>Generally, confidence has ticked higher and that is nice to see, especially as this index has stayed relatively depressed over the past 2 years. The question remains whether small businesses will hire and expand. The general read through was <!--more-->that hiring will be slow as there is a concern over the cost factors associated with higher inflation.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/small_confidence-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12096 aligncenter\" title=\"small_confidence\" src=\"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/small_confidence-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"557\" height=\"347\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The report was not as optimistic on the potential for hiring, but there there was a good deal of confidence that a higher level of spending and expansion down the road.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/small_spending-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12095\" title=\"small_spending\" src=\"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/small_spending-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"557\" height=\"345\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Looking at the latest ECRI gauges also shows that growth is continuing, at a slower pace.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Ecri-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12097\" title=\"Ecri\" src=\"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Ecri-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"566\" height=\"739\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There was a good read into the potential future moves by small businesses that was part of today&#8217;s release of the NFIB Small Business report. Generally, confidence has ticked higher and that is nice to see, especially as this index has stayed relatively depressed over the past 2 years. The question remains whether small businesses [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5,12],"tags":[481,483],"class_list":["post-12094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy","category-markets","tag-economy","tag-markets","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12094","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12094"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12094\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedisciplinedinvestor.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}