How small businesses saved our job-creating, uh, bacon
March 23, 2019 at 08:00 AM EDT
the small firms that survived, the ones that somehow weathered the insidious “New Normal” that defined that period, became stronger from their devotion to these two specific practices: 1) They learned how to operate leaner and more efficiently than they ever thought possible; 2) They deleveraged – got out of debt.