Uncertainty about sales impedes business planning and could harm capital formation just as much as uncertainty about inflation can create uncertainty about relative prices and harm business planning.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
If there's one thing that's certain in business, it's uncertainty.
Small business owners are experiencing great uncertainty because of the possibility of tax increases, the inconsistent flow of credit, an outrageous national debt, high energy costs, and overreaching federal regulations.
The markets don't like instability and they don't like uncertainty.
Increased business sales would almost certainly raise the productive capacity of the economy by encouraging additional capital spending, especially if accompanied by reduced uncertainty about future prospects.
Investors don't like uncertainty.
Most business people today are not going to invest in the uncertainty that exists in America.
Inflation is lower and more stable and the real business cycle fluctuations are more modest.
Major organizational changes create uncertainty.
I think in our global economy, uncertainty is ever increasing. So to accommodate to that, we need to build a dynamic economy and dynamic rules that can adapt to changing circumstances.
Every economy is uncertain. Referring to this or any economy as 'uncertain' is an unnecessary and pessimistic redundancy.