Jim Blasingame predicted that President Obama wouldn't push his populist agenda in 2009 because of the weak economy. He now says he was wrong. Listen as Jim explains why raising taxes, regulating carbon and other Obama plans won't be good for your small business.

The day after President Obama delivered his State of the Union speech, Jim Blasingame delivers his State of Small Business Address. He talks about the difference between a worldview that seeks a government approach to solutions, and a worldview that seeks market-based solutions.

The world needs small businesses to be its own stimulus, according to Jim Blasingame, who talks about his thoughts on the various stimulus plans being launched by the government and why his thinks true economic recovery will result more from what small businesses do, often in spite of the government.

Where do you want your small business to be in three years? What will you think of your current performance when you look back in three years? These are two motivating ideas Jim Blasingame poses in this one-on-one with you in order to help you avoid letting fear create inaction.

What do you have, as a small business owner, that big business CEOs envy? Jim Blasingame talks about some of the advantages small businesses have that they should be leveraging everyday. He also talks about building better banking relationships.

As he has done for more than 11 years, Jim Blasingame discusses several public policy issues being debated that directly impact small businesses, like the dangers of universal health care, protectionism and unionism.

Jim Blasingame describes two different attitudes he thinks small business owners should assume in 2009: the "Small Business Survival Attitude" and the "Somebody is buying something from someone somewhere right now, it might as well be you" attitude.

Can small business owners learn survival lessons by observing the simple cherry? Jim Blasingame thinks so as he talks about what he calls the Blasingame Cherry Principle as a way to deal with challenges and opportunities.

The so-called "stimulus bill" is mostly pork but not much for small businesses, according to Jim Blasingame, who compared this behavior to what happened after 9-11. That Congress piled a lot of pork onto legislation that was titled national security. This one is doing the same thing in the name of economic stimulus.

Jim Blasingame talks about some of the dangers that could result from government bail-out programs,and how could federal government help small businesses, like cutting taxes, increasing access to capital through bank loans and promoting health savings accounts.