Current Business Environment Makes Running a Business These Days More Challenging than Ever. In today’s world, running a small to mid-sized business, or any business for that matter, can be challenging. Oftentimes business owners may find it challenging to juggle the demands of overhead, payroll, and other upfront expenses, with both their current financing requirements and their future business working capital needs.

published Oct 20th 2016, 1:47 pm, by Justin Fox (Bloomberg View) — In 1999, the unemployment rate in the U.S. was just 4.2 percent, compared with 8.6 percent in Germany and 11.3 percent in France. The labor force participation rate (the percentage of the working-age population either with jobs or