Joe Daly joins Jim Blasingame to report on Gallup research that shows more businesses are closing today than are starting, and what that means for the American economy .

Bill Brandt joins Jim Blasingame to report on some of the factors that are causing the immigrant crisis in the middle East and Europe, including whether the U.S. will take any in.

BIll Brandt joins Jim Blasingame to report on his participation in a conference to discuss global distressed investments and what this has to do with Main Street small businesses.

Ray Keating joins Jim Blasingame to report that there are no indicators that would predict a better 2016 economy than 2015, including the upcoming presidential election.

Ray Keating joins Jim Blasingame to report on the sentiment of consumers and small businesses as a factor in why the economy is still growing very slowly.

Ray Keating joins Jim Blasingame to review the economic and political evidence that has cost the American economy a decade of economic growth.

Jim Blasingame reveals specific examples of how the Obama administration’s assault on businesses – especially small businesses – and how they’ve cost us in jobs and opportunity.

Jay Mincks joins Jim Blasingame to report on his perspective of the current economic condition – which is not great – and talk about what he’s seeing customers doing to overcome this adversity.

Karen Kerrigan joins Jim Blasingame to report on some of the small business elements of the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal, and to point out that the only thing worse than international trade is isolationism.

Steve Forbes joins Jim Blasingame to reveal the reasons why the Fed’s monetary policies intended to help the economy have gone too far and lasted too long.