Lovin’ The Numbers
Jun 28th, 2010 | By Dawn Rivers Baker | Category: Policy MattersLast week might have been described as euphoric for me, because both the firm size class numbers for 2007 and the nonemployer numbers for 2008 were released. When does that ever happen?
And it is usually around this time that at least one person wonders what the big deal is. After all, they’re just numbers, right?
And that’s true. These releases are not contained on other people’s research reports, like most of the research I cover. They are raw data, nothing but numbers.
But these numbers, over time, show trends. Those trends matter, to both the microbusinesses they describe and the overall economy they inhabit.
