The current health care reform and cap-and-trade debates are two critical issues being debated that will have enormous influences on small businesses. Don Lambro joins Jim Blasingame to talk about these issues and how the debate is progressing in Congress.

Proposed reforms in health care and carbon emissions will create prohibitive costs for small businesses, as Steve Moore reports with Jim Blasingame, including specific tax and surtax proposals to pay for these reforms.

What if the government conducted regulatory stimulus by reducing or eliminating regulations on small businesses? Wayne Crews joins Jim Blasingame to discuss how reducing regulations, instead of increasing them, would encourage the economic recovery.

For some time, Americans have had a "borrow and spend" attitude about our economy, according to Bill Glynn, and he talks candidly with Jim Blasingame about what this behavior hath wrought on our future.

What's the future of manufacturing in the U.S.? Will health care reform pass in 2009? Will the SBA increase lending to small business exporters? How much more financial regulations will be imposed? Joan Pryde joins Jim Blasingame to discuss these topics and more.

What is the impact of national politics on small business? Republican strategics, Rich Galen, joins Jim Blasingame to discuss current political issues, including the Supreme Court nominee process, the future of the Republican party, and the likelihood of passage of the heath care reform bill.

Is immigration taking a back seat in the national debate? Tamar Jacoby says yes, as she joins Jim Blasingame discuss the current status of immigration reform and whether it could become an element of the health care reform debate.

China will continues to impact life and markets on planet Earth, according to Ted Fishman, who discuss the current unrest in China with Jim Blasingame, plus the success of its government stimulus and overall economic recovery. They also discuss the ways China will continue to influence the world for decades to come.

The Internet sales tax debate is heating up again and Steve DelBianco joins Jim Blasingame to discuss the bill currently in Congress that would force small Internet-based businesses to be prepared to collect and remit sales taxes to the 8,000 sales tax jurisdictions in the U.S..

What financial regulations is the government planning? Who is hurt the most by the recession, young workers or older workers? Is a Value Added Tax (VAT) in our future? Joan Pryde and Jim Blasingame talk about these current events and others that impact small businesses.