![Optimism in the middle market amid expectation of change](https://insights.pughcpas.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Pugh-Feature-Image-Factory8-296-300x169.jpg)
Report explores the expectations of senior executives at middle market businesses as the Biden administration takes over.
![RSM Middle Market Business Index: November 2020](https://insights.pughcpas.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Pugh-RSM-Image-sm_mmbi_november2020_monthly_2020-300x169.png)
The MMBI eased to 123.6 in November from 126.7 in October, reflecting stout middle market business conditions.
![The Real Economy: Volume 72](https://insights.pughcpas.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Pugh-RSM-Image-RSM-logo-300x170.gif)
We examine economic outlook, pandemic-era lending programs, minimum wage, health care provider funding and middle market technology trends.
![Private equity deal-making surges, with gains in the middle market](https://insights.pughcpas.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Pugh-RSM-Image-gr-nt-all-peg-1018-pe-social-share-green-300x169.png)
After a quiet period set off by the coronavirus pandemic, private equity deal activity in the United States surged through mid-November