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Lessons From Past Recessions

Success

For anyone who lived through the fear and uncertainty of the 2008 financial crisis, hearing ‘recession’ from news anchors and pundits can bring up anxiety and fear. The most recent recession was in 2020 and only lasted a couple of months, whereas the 2008 recession lasted about 18 months. Beef up your emergency fund.

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Health Grows to 17.6% of U.S. Economy

Small Business Labs

of GDP in 2008.   These include an aging population requiring more health care, rising levels of chronic disease among the young and the expanding use of expensive, high-tech health equipment and pharmaceuticals.    Last year's 4% increase means we spent about $100 billion more on health care than in 2008

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How Big Corporations Are Cutting Their Energy Usage

Eco-Office Gals

In 2008, they created a program that is called the Climate Corps. Its focus is to train 100 graduate students each year about the fundamentals regarding energy efficiency so that they will be well-equipped to go into Corporate America and share the knowledge that they have with the places where they intern.

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10 Changes You Might See Coming to Your Workplace

On The Job

While I thought about writing an uplifting, inspirational post today -- the last day of 2008 -- the truth is that I'm very much a realist at heart. Outside business consultants can be expensive, so the powers that be brought in Miss Miller's 5th grade class to give book reports on "How to Win Friends and Influence People."

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A Group Called Skeleton Staff (and more.)

Laughing all the Way to Work

We need to open new administrative files for 2008. We have to finish off any year-end expense reports and any other accounting that needs to be entered to close off 2007, and we have to do our regular work. It will be a busy week when we get back to work in 2008. If you get a chance to read the article, I would recommend it.

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Small Business Start-Up Idea – T-Shirt Design | THE SMALL BUSINESS.

The Small Business Blog

Small Business Start-Up Idea – T-Shirt Design by Stefan Töpfer on Apr 02, 2008 There is always a great demand for custom-made T-shirts, ranging from sports teams in need of new kit to event organisers wanting promotional shirts to give away. Working at Home on the Internet Said on April 4th, 2008 at 12:55 pm [.]

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Q & A: What does “Fixed Costs” mean and why should they be as low.

The Small Business Blog

Examples are rent, some employee costs, property taxes, telephone, heating and interest/bank expense. Rental equipment, software (via cloud computing), along with outsourcing of services are all good ways to spend less and make more. Why should I keep my “Fixed Costs&# as low as possible? Digg Furl Netscape Yahoo!

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