{"id":590,"date":"2009-01-13T16:00:26","date_gmt":"2009-01-13T21:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merchantaccountblog.com\/?p=590"},"modified":"2009-06-19T17:57:14","modified_gmt":"2009-06-19T22:57:14","slug":"merchant-accounts-as-a-measurement-of-the-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merchantequip.com\/merchant-account-blog\/590\/merchant-accounts-as-a-measurement-of-the-economy","title":{"rendered":"Merchant accounts as a measurement of the economy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During a recession or a downturn in the country&#8217;s economy, we typically see the unemployment rate go up. In the current situation, the unemployment  rate has gone up a lot.<\/p>\n<p>One of the few good things that comes from unemployment, is that it creates situations that allow new businesses to start up. What better motivation to start your own business than getting laid off?<\/p>\n<p>One of the interesting facts about the credit card processing industry, is that we generally see an increase in new businesses during an economic downturn, especially when it involves a lot of lay offs and lost jobs.<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/trends\/viz?q=merchant+account&#038;date=ytd&#038;geo=usa&#038;graph=weekly_img&#038;sort=0&#038;sa=N\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/trends\/viz?q=merchant+account&#038;date=2008&#038;geo=us&#038;graph=weekly_img&#038;sort=0&#038;sa=N\" alt=\"Economy - Merchant Account Trends\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>This is blatantly apparent when comparing Google&#8217;s trend graph for the term &#8220;Merchant Account&#8221; to the S&#038;P500 Index. The increase in searches for merchant account is a delayed inverse to the crash in stock price, which in this case is a good indicator of the country&#8217;s economy.<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.merchantequip.com\/merchant-account-blog\/images\/sandp-2008.gif\" alt=\"\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>This is a positive trend to me, because it&#8217;s apparent that people are still getting out there and trying to open their own businesses. Financing is a major hurdle right now, but there are signs that we will see an increase of new businesses in the months to come. Real-estate is cheap, competition is evaporating, and those businesses who can get established in a difficult economy should excel when things do pick up again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During a recession or a downturn in the country&#8217;s economy, we typically see the unemployment rate go up. In the current situation, the unemployment rate has gone up a lot. One of the few good things that comes from unemployment, is that it creates situations that allow new businesses to start up. What better motivation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-merchantaccounts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merchantequip.com\/merchant-account-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merchantequip.com\/merchant-account-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merchantequip.com\/merchant-account-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merchantequip.com\/merchant-account-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merchantequip.com\/merchant-account-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=590"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/www.merchantequip.com\/merchant-account-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":766,"href":"https:\/\/www.merchantequip.com\/merchant-account-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590\/revisions\/766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merchantequip.com\/merchant-account-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merchantequip.com\/merchant-account-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merchantequip.com\/merchant-account-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}