Bob McTeer

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Can the EU's problems be summarized in a poem? Bob McTeer joins Jim Blasingame with a poem and more about what caused the E.U.'s financial problems and how that situation will affect American small businesses.
Why are community bank numbers dropping? Bob McTeer joins Jim Blasingame to try to calm his fears that the drop in community bank numbers could put small businesses in jeopardy.
How is Fed policy helping home buyers and businesses? Bob McTeer joins Jim Blasingame to explain how Federal Reserves policies are lowering long-term interest, which should help corporations and real estate buyers.
Will Fed monetary policies ultimately be good for the recovery? Bob McTeer joins Jim Blasingame to discuss why he thinks the accommodate easing the Fed has been doing will ultimately pay off as the economy grows.
More regulations are not the answer to bad financial behavior. Bob McTeer joins Jim Blasingame to discuss the over-reaching and ineffective regulations that don't solve problems, but create impediments to economic growth.
Is America's Central Bank holding too much assets? Bob McTeer joins Jim Blasingame to discuss how the Fed's balance sheet has grown in three years and whether this could create an inflationary train wrech as the economy improves.
Watching the failed E.U. policies collapse, why is the U.S. mimicking them? Bob McTeer joins Jim Blasingame to ask why U.S. policy is looking more like the failed big government policies that created Europe's fiscal nightmare.
Will the U.S. economy grow in 2012? Bob McTeer joins Jim Blasingame to discuss the prospects for the U.S. economy in 2012 and to predict a steady growth of between 2.5% and 3% GDP growth this year.
Is there anything more the Fed can do to influence the economy? Bob McTeer joins Jim Blasingame to report on potential Fed actions,and how it has recently supported the European Central Bank.
Will the economy in 2012 be better than last year? Bob McTeer joins Jim Blasingame to report on how the economy is progressing and comment on some of President Obama's proposals in his state of the union speech.