How are small businesses holding up these days? NFIB’s Bill Dunkelberg joins Jim Blasingame to report that small businesses still are not growing, hiring, investing or borrowing, all things needed to grow the economy.

Could we be headed for another recession? Bill Dunkelberg joins Jim Blasingame to discuss whether we’re in danger of having a double-dip recession, plus whether the government in helping or hurting.

Turkey should be the economic and government model for the Middle East. Guy Sorman joins Jim Blasingame to discuss entrepreneurial and democratic optimism for the Middle East and why Turkey should be the regional model.

Did a single entrepreneur really start the Arab Spring? Guy Sorman joins Jim Blasingame to reveal how a Tunisian produce seller's suicidal protest of government repression started the revolution in Tunisia and the Arab Spring.

What can the government do to stimulate small business job growth? Henry Nothhaft joins Jim Blasingame with ideas on how Congress can revitalize small business hiring, including reducing regulations and revising the Sarbanes-Oxley Act.

Have we become confused about the role of the president? Burt Folsom joins Jim Blasingame to discuss the Constitutional role of the president, which is to run the government, not the country or the economy.

How does President Obama compare to FDR? Burt Folsom joins Jim Blasingame to discuss why FDR’s unsustainable philosophy of wealth redistribution hurt the country long-term and the same practice by Obama is doing the same thing.

Is your business lean and mean? Jim Blasingame reveals results of a recent Small Business Advocate poll which indicates that more small businesses are finding a way to survive with the sales they have.

The president is not supposed to run the country. Jim Blasingame reminds us that Americans run America and the economy. Politicians are supposed to run the government, not the country or the economy.

The U.S. government has an unsustainable business model. Jim Blasingame talks about America’s tenuous financial state and why it needs a turnaround plan before we become like Greece.