How are you feeling these days about the economy and the business outlook in the weeks and months ahead? The small business community is in a funk, and pessimism is at a five year high, according to the Wells Fargo Gallup Small Business Index.

80% of business owners feel the current economic conditions will affect their businesses.

Twenty-five percent believes we are in a severe recession already.

Thirty-theee percent don’t see a recovery until 2010.

Most have been through a previous economic downturn, eighty-five percent were in business in the 1990-91 downturn.

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