Eric Groves joins Jim Blasingame to report on two Alignable small business surveys that show many Main Street businesses are still struggling against the pandemic shutdowns, plus the PPP2 program isn’t helping as much either.

Gary Sirak joins Jim Blasingame to recommend looking at target date funds from past years to assume a defensive investment strategy with your retirement funds.

Gary Sirak joins Jim Blasingame to caution against further investing in stocks, and to recommend other options as a defensive investing strategy.

Gary Moore joins Jim Blasingame to discuss politics, capitalism and geopolitics as forces that are shaping the future of humans, and how this future reconciles with God’s plan for us.

Gary Moore joins Jim Blasingame to discuss the intersection of capitalism, human free will, and digital leverage, which is leading toward a reckoning that likely only God can reconcile.

Gary Moore joins Jim Blasingame to explain how changes in attitudes toward earning interest by the early Catholic church led to the rise of capitalism and the global economy.

Bill Dunkelberg joins Jim Blasingame to report on the NFIB Index, which shows only half of the 20 million who lost their jobs during the pandemic have returned to work, plus one-third of small business employers have jobs they can’t fill with qualified candidates.

Bill Dunkelberg joins Jim Blasingame to report on the NFIB’s Index of small business optimism, which crashed to 95 points in January, as if Main Street thought it was going back to the Obama administration.

Christophe Uzureau joins Jim Blasingame to discuss the Bitcoin phenomenon and how the rise and proliferation of cryptocurrency in the marketplace will diminish the power of the U.S. dollar and the sovereignty of the U.S.

John Horvat II joins Jim Blasingame to reveal why additional payments from the government now will just add to the national debt without boosting the economy more than the current level of available cash would.