Bill Dunkelberg joins Jim Blasingame to reveal that while overall hiring was off for last month, small businesses broke a 45 year record for new hires.

Bill Dunkelberg joins Jim Blasingame to reveal that there seem to be different headlines for the economic conditions of Wall Street and Main Street, with the latter indicating high optimism.

Bill Dunkelberg joins Jim Blasingame to discuss the paradox of full employment in the U.S. which at once produces great national income for millions of workers, but also, by definition, limits economic growth that depends on more workers.

Bill Dunkelberg joins Jim Blasingame with the NFIB Index of Small Business Optimism, which shows hiring and compensation are up, and yet inflation is still down.

Bill Dunkelberg joins Jim Blasingame to discuss the strength of the U.S. economy, that there is no indication of even one negative GDP quarter on the horizon, let alone two, and that we need to start celebrating 2.5% growth in a $21 trillion economy.

Bill Dunkelberg joins Jim Blasingame to report that small business optimism is still at an all-time extremely high level, even though it ebbs and flows a little each month.

Bill Dunkelberg joins Jim Blasingame to report on the growth in small business hiring, plus how capital purchases has evolved, and whether wage growth will have an inflationary impact.

Bill Dunkelberg joins Jim Blasingame to report on the recent tendency of the Fed to listen more to Wall Street than to Main Street where the real economy is practiced.

Bill Dunkelberg joins Jim Blasingame to report on the fact that even though the current Index is off from last month, the level of small business optimism is still at record highs.

Bill Dunkelberg joins Jim Blasingame to report on the Index internals which show that almost all of the internal factors are up, including hiring and sales capital spending.