Small business owners can be forgiven if they hear the echoes of carnival barkers during these inflationary times:
“Around and around, it goes, where it stops, nobody knows!”
Unlike a “Wheel of Fortune”, however, the current economic climate is more like a “Wheel of Mis-Fortune” for small businesses as rising costs across the board have them in a vice grip with higher prices for goods, raw materials, rent and transportation on one side and escalating salary and benefit demands by employees on the other.