Why The Great Recession May Have Positive Impact On Small Business Retirement – There’s no way around it: the Great Recession was a dark period for many small businesses. But according to our national poll of business owners with 50 or fewer employees, it may have ultimately provided a silver lining that has led more to address an important issue they’ve been putting on the backburner for years –retirement.

Small Business Must-Reads — Thursday, September 5 - Alternative education: Business schools have been seeing competition from a number of programs — from General Assembly in New York to Starter School in Chicago — which have cropped up recently to cater to people seeking to launch their own companies or join fledgling ones. Wall Street Journal.

U.S. Small Business Lending Reaches Highest Level Since August 2007 – Small U.S. businesses took on more debt in July, pushing an index of borrowing to a six-year high and adding to evidence that the economic recovery is on firmer ground.