Small business owners have been getting "punched in the face" pretty consistently for the last two years rendering even the most well thought out plans useless. The next steps aren't very clear either since the goal posts aren't just being moved anymore, they've been taken to an undisclosed location!!
The world and in particular America is going through a dramatic change that it doesn't fully understand much less control - the "experts" are once again driving us all off the cliff; this isn't uncharted territory, it's history repeating itself but most folks can't see it because they're fully invested in the fake narratives and also because very few care to know about history until it "punches them in the face".
We have all been trained to view "value" in dollar (or other currency) terms. That is, when we see $7 per gallon of gas we associate that with the "value" of gas rather than it's price in dollars. How much grain does a gallon of gas cost? How much Flour, Cooking oil or.....gold? Because we calculate the value of something by translating it into dollars we as consumers have been blinded to the fact that the dollar has already LOST 98% of it's value as expressed by purchasing power since 1971 - 98%!
Fun fact: one gram of gold today (once converted into whatever currency) buys exactly the same amount (weight quantity)of Flour, Oil, Wine or Rice as it did 2000 years ago. That's right, if you managed to live 2000 years and still had that one gram of gold you earned then, you could purchase the same basic needs today. Where was inflation for 2000 years you ask? GOOD QUESTION!
I have time limits today but I will expand on this theme Monday...stay tuned!