And for stock investors all around the globe, virtually no matter the market you were in, you made money this past year. Sometimes lots of it. Here in the u. S. , the major indexes set records seemingly evy week. The dow and nasdaq had 71 and 72 record alltime high closes respectively. No other year comes close. The s p 500 had 62. And those records led to numbers like these for 2017. The dow up 25 . The nasdaq, 28. And the s p 500, 19 . We delved a lip and h and found some surprises in those numbers. If youre worried these outsized results may indicate an overheated market, youre entitled to feel that way. But consider this. Going back to the reagan administrati that began in 1981, none, none of these gaudy percentage gains even rank in the top five year by year. This years dow comes the closest. Sixth best year since 81. This wasnt even the dows best decade, 2013 was, up 26. 5 . It was, believe it or not, an eerily calm year in the market. 2015 and 16 combined saw the s p 500 move 1
Of other customers while youre there . Only 1 of Pharmaceuticals Business is conducted online. One entrepreneur got the bright idea to relieve some of the pain points with a digital full. Reporter when eric went to his drugstore to pick up a prescription medicatio in january of 2015, his headache was just beginning. He waited in line nearly an hour before speaking to a pharmacist. He said, im so sorry, were out of stock of zpack. Im thinking, this is january, its the only thing that pharmacies should have. I cant believe this is an experience that exists on every Street Corner in america. Reporte w42 percent of respo survey said their pharmacy was out of stock at least once, causing them to make a return trip. Eric came up with a concept for an online pharmacy. He refined it for more than a year with an old friend, pharmacist sonia patel. Most pharmacy systems are built on technology that was in use 20 years ago. It didnt work for the pharmacist, didnt work for the consumer, didnt work
And that the President Elect talked about a system where for every new regulation comes in, two have to go away. Im not sure how that works. But something along those lines where new regulations have to be counter weighted with reduction in the overall Regulatory Burden on small companies. Weve seen happen many times a regulation gets put into place and nobodys thought about how its going to affect the Small Business owner. I it may make sense for big business but Small Business gets talking up. You have to have institutional reform so that you force government to do this. Sunsetting regulations, for example. It forces the elected officials to say, does this still make sense . In terms of whats changed in technology and the economy, should we still be doing this . Is this a better way to do it . Look at the cost benefit analysis. Those types of reforms are needed so we bring sanity to the regulatory morass in washington, d. C. Todd, you did a survey about the cost for Small Business
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