Small Business Firms Reported Stronger Performance in 2015 than 2014

The Small Business Credit Survey, a collaboration among seven Federal Reserve Banks, including New York, Atlanta, Boston, Cleveland, Philadelphia, Richmond and St. Louis, offers insight about business owners’ financing decisions.

This report focuses on the survey responses of 3,459 employer firms from 26 states. It sheds particular light on three sub-segments—startups, microbusinesses, and growing firms, or those with increasing revenues and employees and plans to increase or maintain their number of employees

 The price inflation ahead will surprise almost all---and it will be the main reason the Fed will be raising interest rates, and not pushing them back down to zero.