Entrepreneur or Unemployed?

Usually new businesses take off in good times when consumers are flush and banks are eager to lend. So why all this entrepreneurship last year?

In a word, unemployment. Booted off company payrolls, millions of Americans had no choice but to try selling themselves. Another term for “entrepreneur” is “self-employed.”

By ROBERT B. REICH

Full Story: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/02/opinion/02reich.html?ref=opinion

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