Bill Dunkelberg

NFIB Optimism Index: Small business optimism is up

We may not like the numbers, but we like the trend. Bill Dunkelberg joins Jim Blasingame to report November’s NFIB Optimism Index indicates a slight uptick in small business optimism, but we still have a long way to go.

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