The State of Small Business: An Economic Outlook

There's a lot of noise out there about the economy. The question is what it means for your business.

Join Ara Kharazian, Economist at Ramp, for a 30-minute briefing on the trends shaping the small business economy right now. Drawing on real-time transaction data from tens of thousands of U.S. businesses, Ara will cut through the noise and walk through what's actually happening on the ground.

In this session, we'll cover:
• The current state of small business spending
• How businesses are adapting their vendor and software investments amid a shifting macro environment
• what AI adoption patterns look like across industries and what early movers are doing differently
• Key signals from labor, inflation, and consumer demand that every business owner should be watching

About the speakers

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Ara Kharazian
Lead Economist, Ramp
Ara Kharazian is an Economist at Ramp. His writing and analysis of AI, business spend, and the economy has been covered in the New York Times, NBC News, ABC News, NPR's Planet Money, Bloomberg, the Guardian, Vox, Axios, and more. Ara previously led economic research at Square and developed Square Payroll Index, which became one of the key public datasets used to track restaurant worker wages, tips, and overtime in the United States. He was previously an economic consultant at Cornerstone Research.

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