The Small Business Optimism Index

                   

If you want an idea of where the economy is heading and what the chances are for a brightening in the picture for more jobs, you will want to know small business optimism

numbers.

                       

The National Federation of Independent Business periodically issues its Small Business Optimism Index. That, better than any political pronouncement from the White House, will tell you how small business folk are prepared to speculate with their hard-earned money, to create needed jobs that the government can only gab about.(See the Earl J. Weinreb NewsHole® comments and @BusinessNewshole at Twitter.)