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Tax cuts to corporations are definitely part of the equation, but just as important is “cutting regulations” and the support that he has provided to Small business “start-ups.” President Trumps:Last year, Trump began cutting rules in earnest as soon as he entered office. He slashed the total number of pages in the Federal Register, the government's regulatory bible, from 95,894 in 2016 to 61,308 pages in 2017. That's a decline of 36% and the lowest since 1993. This year it will go even lower.This is a big deal for businesses, which find themselves increasingly burdened by mandates, orders, rules and commands issued by Washington bureaucrats who know nothing about their companies.The burden on small businesses is especially acute. A National Small Business Association survey found that small business owners spend more than 80 hours a year just dealing with regulations. In the first year alone, a small business will spend on average roughly $83,000 to comply with government rules. That can be the margin between staying open or going bankrupt.That said, More businesses = more jobs. Also as noted above, when corporations do better, they expand production. Improved Corporate incomes = more jobs.

Your question is a good one and is often asked. I am going to answer it in a totally different way than before.The US stock market has 140 Industries NOT 30 as the Dow Jones Industrial Average implies. There are millions of businesses in the US, millions. There are only 5000 US companies listed on the stock exchanges, and the S&P500 only represents 500 companies, the NASDAQ a mere 100 companies.Does anyone think that 30 Dow stocks, 100 Nasdaq stocks, or 500 S&P500 stocks truly represents the many millions of businesses in the USA that account for the majority of jobs?There are currently, 31.7 million small businesses in the USA in 2020. That is 99.9% of the total number of US businesses in 2020.The stock market represents only the elite of businesses—those companies that are listed either on the NYSE or NASDAQ are a miniscule number of companies.Hence, all of you need to think of the stock market NOT as representative of the US economy but as a small segment of that huge economy.When people think the stock market represents the economy that is like people around the world thinking that the 1% super wealthy of this nation constitutes every family and every person and their financial worth.When someone is told that the stock market represents the US economy, they are being told misinformation. It only represents the wealthiest companies in the US which is not even 1% of the businesses in the USA.Just because Dow 30 is at a new high doesn’t mean anything about the health of the millions and millions of businesses in the US. It just tells you how well an infinitesimally minority of companies are doing.Frankly, that is not even accurate of the Dow 30 stocks. Only 6 at this time are at new all time highs. Rather odd that the Dow 30 is at a new high when the majority of the 30 stocks are well below all-time highs.If you study all 30 Dow stocks on a Weekly or Monthly Candlestick Chart, you will see clearly that the majority of Dow companies are not doing that well. The individual charts reveal that the Dow 30 should NOT be at a new all time high IF it accurately depicted the real stock price conditions of those components. But alas, the formula for calculating the Dow 30 is proprietary and even a professional technical analyst has no access to that formula to assess how and why the Dow 30 is at a new high when the majority of its components are not.The economy of the US and the Dow 30 are NOT one and the same.The economy of the USA is not giant corporations who are wealthy. That is like saying the population of the USA is represented by the 1% wealthy of this nation.If every retail investor learned to read stock charts properly, then it would be far more difficult for the retail investors to be misled.The burden of this pandemic is on the shoulders of small businesses.Most giant corporations depend heavily on their small business customers for a huge chunk of their revenues. As smaller businesses fail, the giant corporations lose more and more business customers.Stock Market Learning Center for all Investors and Traders.

“At first most text book disruptions look like toys or games”Opportunity Is Always Available To The Bold And Fast To ActIn less than a week the phenomenon of Pokemon Go has completely transformed retail businesses. Astute small business owners have responded instantly to the opportunity presented by the traffic the game has presented to otherwise almost abandoned streets.Pokemon Lure ModulesThe simplest way to actively engage in Pokemon Go Marketing is to establish a Pokemon Lure Module purchase for the physical retail location. This will capture game characters in the geolocation for about 30 minutes.The Lure Module marketing technique works out to be $1.19 per hour, while the business is open:• 14,500 Pokécoins / 680 = 21 8-packs of lures• (21 * 8)/2 = 84hrs• $100/84 hr = $1.19/hrThis technique has already raised the number of paying customers to small businesses to a level unseen in the history of smartphone apps. For example my buddies at L'inizio Pizza Bar in New York City made it on @CNBC when over the last weekend they raised business by 75% using Lure Modules:Gotta catch 'em all: Pokemon Go is boosting business for restaurantsI have urged 1000s of small businesses to utilize this opportunity while it continues to gain momentum. Just about any small retail business can participate to a greater degree. Food establishments and convenience stores are the logical first starts. However offering smartphone Charging Stations to Pokemon Go players has proven to be an amazing opportunity to generate new sales and customers.Pokemon GymsThe other possibility is locating Pokemon Gyms. These are set locations that are usually in or near a park but are appearing on street corners near businesses. You can not set up a Pokemon Gym at the moment however, you can locate them and drive customers to a small business location using Lure Modules. I have been researching Pokemon Gym locations using AI for the past week and made some interesting discoveries. I use the Ingress Map that is used as the basis map by the developer:Ingress - Game RealityLast night I urged 5 Food Trucks to locate around a Pokemon Gym and they saw a 7000% increase in business, about 200 people per hour. They have seen nothing like this before, even running on into the late night.Pokemon Paid Sponsorships - SoonThere will also be an advertising opportunity for business very soon:"Advertisers will be able to buy sponsored places in #PokemonGo"—Niantic CEO Advertisers set for a piece of ‘Pokémon Go’ action - FT.comI am predicting large national retailers sponsoring a number of Pokemon Go elements like free Pokeballs. The fact is places like McDonalds already has seen this growth organically:The Pokemon Opportunity Is GrandPokemon in less than a week is already the most popular game in history. It is also more popular on Android than Google Maps. This will likely continue to grow for some time.There is no doubt that all things in business have a cycle. Even the best business ideas enter into a long winter. For Pokemon Go we are in the early spring of this game and the greater ideas of how new uses of Augmented Reality (AR) can impact businesses. Many companies have built many of the concepts we see in Pokemon Go in classically game mechanics based location apps and have had varying success. Out of no place, Pokemon Go has raised awareness of just how powerful AR can be. Thus I am certain this phenomenon will herald in a new era even as the arc of popularity of Pokemon Go wanes into fall and winter.<Amazon Booklet Promotion>I wrote an Amazon Kindle booklet that illustrates 6 ways to capitalize on the Pokemon Go phenomenon today, just $1.99. It is my hope this will be a useful step-by-step way to instantly make great use of the Pokemon Go phenomenon as fast as possible:Amazon.com: How To Use Pokémon Go For Small Business Marketing: 6 Powerful Ways To Capitalize On The Pokémon Go Phenomenon To Get More Customers In Your Business eBook: Brian Roemmele: Kindle Store</Amazon Booklet Promotion>The opportunities are always available to the bold and the fast to act. Thus far there have been astounding opportunities for those that have seized the moment. How important has it been for small businesses? Thus far nothing has generated more traffic so quickly in the history of small business.