What do recent Fed adjustments in interest rates mean for small business? Richard DeKaser joins Jim Blasingame to report on why small businesses should care when the Fed increases the interest rate at the "discount window."

How is small business selling different in the Age of the Customer? Chad and Jeff Koser join Jim Blasingame to talk about how selling has changed as we learn more about the "new normal" selling practices in The Age of the Customer™.

Several economic indicators are newsworthy and Joan Pryde joins Jim Blasingame to report on some of them, including GDP, inflation, unemployment, oil prices and others.

Just how strong is China's economy? Economist, Guy Sorman joins Jim Blasingame to report that China's economy is much more fundamentally fragile than many experts are saying and what that could mean over the next couple of years.

What does America need to do to fix what's wrong?Richard Rawson joins Jim Blasingame to identify some of the key elements of what has made America a great country and what we need to do to emphasize those traits and get our country back on track.

The greatest enemies of economic progress are politicians. That's the message Guy Sorman delivers as he joins Jim Blasingame to talk about why the Euro Zone and the United States are having so much trouble with economic recovery. The problem is not the economy, it's the incessant need by politicians for power.

Small business owners report that this recovery doesn't exactly feel like one. Bill Soward joins Jim Blasingame to report on his company's recent quarterly economic conditions survey of business managers and what they said about the progress of the economy, including the future of jobs growth.

The economic recovery is spotty by industry and region, as Kiplinger's Jim Ostroff reports with Jim Blasingame. Recovery winners are heartland America and manufacturing, while losers are primarily the states nearest both coasts, plus the financial and publishing industries.

Reporting on the U.S. export strategy, Kiplinger's Jim Ostroff joins Jim Blasingame to reveal some of the more productive efforts by the Obama administration to grow the economy and jobs by promoting global trade by small businesses.

Reporting on the true unemployment rate, Kiplinger's Jim Ostroff talks with Jim Blasingame about the difference between the way the unemployment rate is calculated and America's actual unemployment condition.