Reporting on the the price trends of energy products, Kiplinger's Jim Ostroff joins Jim Blasingame to identify the likely price levels for crude oil, gasoline, heating oil and natural gas, and electricity. They also speculate about the impact on prices by speculators.

Reporting on how the global sovereign debt challenge is a threat to a fragile economic recovery, Kiplinger's Jim Ostroff joins Jim Blasingame to discuss the domino effect that could happen, especially in the Euro Zone, if Greece defaults on its sovereign debt.

Delivering the Feb 2010 NFIB report on small business conditions, Bill Dunkelberg joins Jim Blasingame to reveal what Main Street business owners are saying about the economic conditions they are experiencing.

We may be in the mother of all jobless recoveries, says Jim Blasingame, as he explains why slow jobs growth may cause this recovery to take longer to mature than we want and what this will mean for small businesses.

Jim Blasingame says this recovery is a marathon, not a sprint, and he talks about the attitude we must have and the things we must do to be able to finish this economic recovery race successfully.

Kiplinger's Jim Ostroff reports with Jim Blasingame on progress in the credit crisis, including some of the dynamics that will cause access to credit to improve in 2010. Jim Blasingame is less optimistic that these forces will cause small businesses to borrow more.

Reporting on the 2-10 Tatum Survey of Business Conditions, Sam Norwood joins Jim Blasingame to talk about some of the realities of a slow economic recovery, including poor jobs growth, slow sales and a difficult credit environment.

What does America have to do to regain our global leadership in the marketplace of things and the marketplace of ideas? Jim Blasingame says America can't keep living off of what we accomplished in the 20th century. The 21st century is a brand new place, and we have to demand more of ourselves and those we allow to represent us.

More loans won't cause small businesses to hire more people. That's the message Tracy Eden and Jim Blasingame have to the question about lending to small businesses. The problem isn't more loans, it's minimizing fear and uncertainty.

The truth about small business access to capital isn't what you hear on television or from Washington. Tracy Eden and Jim Blasingame talk about the why main stream media and President Obama are completely wrong when they say small businesses can't get loans, and identify a number of Main Street loan sources that never stopped working with small businesses.