You know, you might not think that the price of food has much to do with your microbusiness — although, I expect you wouldn’t argue that it has quite a lot to do with your life, which you’ll have to admit is much more important.

But that’s where you’d be wrong. Because the issue of the rapidly increasing cost of food and what some of the solutions to that issue might entail, could have a lot to do with the very structure of our economic lives. And that’s something that is very much worth thinking about.

No doubt there are a lot of very smart people working on this problem but I’m planning to weigh in on the subject at length this week, with a series of posts at The Journal Blog. And, needless to say, I’d love it if you would drop by and join the conversation.

I expect it’ll be wide-ranging — no surprising because the subject of food touches on so many aspects of life.

Meanwhile, besides talking about food, there’s the SBA reauthorization and new small business data from the National Small Business Association.

For more information:

Hearing Archive: Food Prices and Small Business
SBA Reauthorization and Improvement Act of 2008 (S. 2920) (THOMAS)
National Small Business Association
2008 NSBA Survey of Small and Mid-Sized Business (PDF)

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