11/09/2026
97.9. That's where small business optimism sat in September, according to the NFIB Small Business Economic Trends index.
Below its 52-year average. Uncertainty still running high.
Here's what that actually means: the environment doesn't decide your outcome. Your decisions do.
The owners we work with aren't waiting for conditions to improve. They're making the calls now that compound later.
Finish the year deliberately.
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