{"id":403338,"date":"2010-03-08T11:18:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-08T16:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/gartman-heres-the-real-reason-why-small-businesses-are-not-in-good-shape-2010-3"},"modified":"2010-03-08T11:18:00","modified_gmt":"2010-03-08T16:18:00","slug":"gartman-here-are-the-two-reasons-small-businesses-are-so-sick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/403338","title":{"rendered":"Gartman: Here Are The Two Reasons Small Businesses Are So Sick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"float_right\" src=\"http:\/\/static.businessinsider.com\/image\/4adc61260000000000c6263b\/dennisgartmancnbcpng.png\" border=\"0\" alt=\"dennisgartmancnbc.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p>After last week&#8217;s employment numbers, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thegartmanletter.com\/\">Dennis Gartman<\/a> tackles the problems associated with small business owners in this morning&#8217;s The Gartman Letter.<\/p>\n<p>It essentially breaks down to two issues at hand: healthcare and securing credit.<\/p>\n<p>While <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/whats-wrong-with-the-healthcare-system2010-3\">Obama and Congress battle over healthcare<\/a>, many small businesses are frightened at what might happen next in terms of benefits costs for employees.<br \/>Secondly, we have the problem of credit. Like many consumers, businesses are finding it hard to borrow and to get a revolving line of credit from banks in order to keep their doors open. Says Gartman:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>Bank lending is virtually non-existent, and until banks are prepared to lend, employment is unlikely to advance.<\/em>&#8220;<\/p>\n<p>Given the importance of small business growth to the economy, it&#8217;s imperative that these issues come to a favorable resolution.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/gartman-heres-the-real-reason-why-small-businesses-are-not-in-good-shape-2010-3#comments\">Join the conversation about this story &#187;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>See Also:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/gartman-im-hedging-this-bull-market-with-the-dollar-2010-1\">Gartman: Snap Up The Greenback As A Hedge Against This Precarious Market<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/gartman-the-nations-crude-refiners-have-turned-into-storers-2010-1\">Gartman: Why The Nation&#8217;s Crude Refiners Have Turned Into Storers<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/dennis-gartman-goes-ape-on-obamas-banker-war-2010-1\">Dennis Gartman Goes Ape On Obama&#8217;s Banker War, Accuses President Of Being Anti-Capitalist<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheMoneyGame\/~4\/nzKnrs_e9y0\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After last week&#8217;s employment numbers, Dennis Gartman tackles the problems associated with small business owners in this morning&#8217;s The Gartman Letter. It essentially breaks down to two issues at hand: healthcare and securing credit. While Obama and Congress battle over healthcare, many small businesses are frightened at what might happen next in terms of benefits [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-403338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=403338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403338\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=403338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=403338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=403338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}