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With the recent set of economic crises that have smothered the United States in fiscal uncertainty, there has been much talk regarding the people in the economy that might seem to take the brunt of bad times, people that own small businesses. These people are the people that go bankrupt first historically during recessions and depressions and for that reason the results of a survey done recently are extremely encouraging vis-à-vis the small business community within the country.

According to the survey done by American Express OPEN, over 70% of small business owners surveyed say that they planned to grow their business at some point during the next six months and more than half of the people that answered the survey that way say that they are willing to increase the financial responsibilities of their business entity in order to get that expansion done. In other words, more than half of the small businesses set to expand in the near future are willing to take on additional loan burdens in order to do so and that is good not only for the small business world in the country, but also for the creditors that are starved for clients at the current moment in time.