This phenomenon of massive wealth generated by billions of small transactions has created its own virtuous cycle: As it grows, Google is fostering thousands of small businesses across the globe, which in turn depend on Google and help it with both revenue and new content.
What about combining of these two factors, The January Effect in small-caps and the Presidential Cycle?
What this means is that investors stand the best chance of participating in this renewed merger and acquisition cycle by investing in small to midsize companies, or micro, small-cap and mid-cap mutual funds run by investment managers with a value approach.
As environmentalist Bjorn Lomborg notes, manufacturing and charging electric cars over their life cycle can produce more carbon than small, gas-powered vehicles.
Every time we turn on a tap or buy food we are responsible for a small element of the much larger water management cycle.
The Forum of Private Business, which represents over 25, 000 small firms, is lobbying for cuts in tax and social security rates to help small companies at this critical point in the cycle.
Maciek Drejak, lead developer of Sleep Cycle, says the app does record small movements, but when analyzing your sleep patterns, it "filters" the ones it doesn't think are relevant.
During the last election cycle we heard a lot about how important small business is to the economy.
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While not exactly robust, early in a recovery cycle it is positive to see at least small growth in this figure based on the logic that, with more money in circulation more money gets spent by consumers.
The tougher conditions are creating a dangerous cycle and have resulted in an ugly blame game between lenders, small businesses and regulators.
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Under pressure to shrink overhead and telescope the new-product cycle, big companies are more likely to turn to universities or small companies to help develop ideas.
"If there's too much uncertainty, no one will want to take the first step, " John Paglia, a small-business researcher at Pepperdine University, says of kick-starting the cycle of credit, spending and growth.
At this point in the business cycle, firms hire when they need workers to fill orders, not to get a relatively small tax break.
The talent and enjoyment drive a virtuous cycle that pushes them to feats others simply shake their heads at, admiration mixed with no small amount of incomprehension.
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Washington had entered the cycle of partisan brinksmanship over the budget that has sown confusion among federal agencies and delayed contracts to small companies like Brown's Navsys Corp.
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