Bill Dunkelberg joins Jim Blasingame to report on the April Index which shows small business owners are optimistic about their own business, but uncertain about the larger macro economy.
Bill Dunkelberg joins Jim Blasingame to report on the current NFIB Index, which shows that both hiring plans are up, but also is the reality of inflation, and its impact on pricing and expenses.
Bill Dunkelberg joins Jim Blasingame to offer his perspective on the future economic conditions, including strong growth through the next 18 months, parallel with plenty of challenges from inflation and government interference.
Bill Dunkelberg joins Jim Blasingame to report on the NFIB’s Index of small business optimism, which crashed to 95 points in January, as if Main Street thought it was going back to the Obama administration.
Bill Dunkelberg joins Jim Blasingame to report on the NFIB Index, which shows only half of the 20 million who lost their jobs during the pandemic have returned to work, plus one-third of small business employers have jobs they can’t fill with qualified candidates.
Bill Dunkelberg joins Jim Blasingame to report on the NFIB Index, which continues to show that the majority of small businesses still aren’t borrowing money, which has been compounded by two rounds of PPP grants.
Bill Dunkelberg joins Jim Blasingame to reveal that small business optimism tanked in December, below the half-century average, because of the election results and COVID outbreak resurgence.
Bill Dunkelberg joins Jim Blasingame to report on the NFIB Index results which indicate small business owners fear the Biden administration will become a redux of the Obama era policies, which produced a lost decade for Main Street.
Bill Dunkelberg joins Jim Blasingame to review the primary reasons 2020 presented unprecedented and multiple challenges for small businesses, and the possibility that 2021 will be different.
Bill Dunkelberg joins Jim Blasingame to compare the NFIB Index responses for Q4 2020, to that of the 2016 election quarter, as a connection to the one common denominator – Joe Biden. Small businesses have seen this movie.
