ECONOMIC OUTLOOK 2014

Jon Snare, Senior VP & Regional Investment Manager with Wells Fargo returns to summarize economic performance in 2013 but most importantly gives us his view of 2014. Questions or comments email [email protected]. EMPIRE OF WEALTH Building the Transcontinental Railroad took 5 years to build lots of money and the greatest financial scandal of the nineteenth century. Questions or comments email [email protected]. in the news The Right Way to Go After Big Clients Don't Put All Your Eggs in One Basket A year after starting a restaurant-technology firm, Rajat Suri got an introduction to what would become by far his biggest client—the casual-dining chain Applebee's International. Link to the full article visit Getting Down to Business® on Facebook. Sell Bikes? There's a Web Domain for That Small Businesses Hope to Gain from the Rollout of Addresses with Endings Like .Bike and .Singles The World Wide Web is about to get a lot wider. Starting Jan. 29, the first of hundreds of new top-level Web domains the suffixes that appear at the end of website addresses like .com and .net will become available for the first time in more than a decade. Link to the full article visit Getting Down to Business® on Facebook. SMALL BUSINESS OPTIMISM CRAWLS FORWARD No Sign of Real Recovery Small-business optimism ended the year slightly up from November, December at 93.9, but below the previous 3 mid-year readings of over 94 and 6 points below the pre-recession average, according to the (NFIB’s) latest index. Link to the full article visit Getting Down to Business® on Facebook.