Many folks expressed surprise last fall when the National Bureau of Economic Research announced that the recession actually ended in June 2009. The report was more than a little hard to swallow for many small business owners still struggling with an economy that started lagging in 2007.The research organization made a point of saying the economy simply started a sputtering recovering in 2009, and it had not made a strong resurgence at that point. Throwing out all the economists’ technical analysis, you need look no further than this month’s Pumper for a few of our own indicators of an economic
