Bill Dunkelberg

NFIB Index: Why aren't small businesses more optimistic?

Featuring Bill Dunkelberg - January 17, 2013

Small business optimism continues to be low. Bill Dunkelberg joins Jim Blasingame with the NFIB Optimism Index that shows small business sentiment is still at recession levels, and some of the factors that are causing this..

Category: Economy: Nation, Global, Government, Politics

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