As a result policy makers are placing extraordinary pressure on small business owners and consumers, two groups to which I belong.

FORBES: Stop telling me to grow big and spend. I'm happy the way I am.

There is a third school, to which I belong.

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And then there are the realists (a group to which I hope I belong) who would say that we are not in a recession yet but we might as well be.

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