Economic recovery is waiting on leadership, not policies. That's the information David Rock delivers in his visit with Jim Blasingame. He reveals that we are less productive when we're fearful and uncertain about the future, and that we will respond more positively to a hopeful message than a new policy.

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.

The health care reform bill is law: What now? Rich Galen joins Jim Blasingame to ponder what will be the economic and political realities as the new bill is promulgated and executed across the American society and marketplace.

What will be the impact of Obama Care on small business? Brian Moran joins Jim Blasingame to talk about the so-called health care reform bill, will it work as proposed and how small businesses will deal with this new program.

Kiplinger on the looming states' rights battles with the Feds. Joan Pryde joins Jim Blasingame to talk about some of the federal mandates that various states are taking exception with and the plans being taken to resist these future obligations.

Proposed financial regulations could hurt small business. Jim Blasingame talks about how new laws adding more banking and financial regulations could actually hurt small business, and he compares these proposals to the ill-advised Sarbanes-Oxley bill of 2002.

How will proposed financial regulations hurt small business? Former Fed insider, Bob McTeer, joins Jim Blasingame to report some of the elements in proposed financial regulatory laws and why they will ultimately harm small businesses.

The current health care reform steps offend democracy. Pete Sepp joins Jim Blasingame to identify some of the process steps Congressional leaders are taking to pass health care reform that include passing a bill and the President signs the law without a vote by members of the House.

Reporting on progress in the war in Afghanistan, Kiplinger's Joan Pryde joins Jim Blasingame with the progress, and they compare this effort with that of past attempts at controlling this region.

Delivering the NFIB March report on small business conditions, Bill Dunkelberg joins Jim Blasingame to talk about the slow pace of the economic recovery, including sales, price levels, jobs growth, capital expenditures and access to credit.