Starting A Business In 2012?

According to the Department of Commerce’s Census Bureau, in 2005, the number of firms that were born outpaced the number of businesses that closed by about 80,000. But by 2009, the number of firms that were being shuttered outpaced the number of companies being born by about 90,000.

“For the most part, there are too many firms, like there are too many houses,” said William Dunkelberg, the chief economist at the National Federation of Independent Business. “Like there are too many of a lot of things.”