Bill Dunkelberg joins Jim Blasingame to report on this month’s survey that although this is an atypical recovery based on the long duration, the economy is trending upward.

What do we have to do to get regulations reduced or eliminated? Wayne Crews joins Jim Blasingame to explain that in order to reduce or eliminate regulations on small businesses, they could set all regulations up with the requirement to be re-approved after a period of time.

Why are regulations more damaging to small business than large businesses? Wayne Crews joins Jim Blasingame to reveal the disparity in the burden of regulatory costs between large and small businesses, plus the cost of creating and enforcing regulations by the federal government.

Why is there such a disconnect between politics and regulations that hurt small business? Wayne Crews joins Jim Blasingame to discuss why politicians don’t understand that over-regulation inhibits small business growth, plus how they over-react when current regulations are abused.

Do you support small businesss in your town? Leslie Grossman joins Jim Blasingame to discuss the Small Business Saturday initiative, encouraging consumers to patronize small businesses all year, but especially during the holidays.

What will it take to either reign-in or abolish the new health care law? Grace-Marie Turner joins Jim Blasingame to discuss the expense, time and energy that is having to be expended to try to neutralize the extremely flawed health care law.

What is the Congressional Health Care Caucus up to? Grace-Marie Turner joins Jim Blasingame to discuss her participation with Congress’ Health Care Caucus and its commitment to repeal or reign-in the health care law.

What impact did the health care law have on the mid-term elections? Grace-Marie Turner joins Jim Blasingame to report on how much of the Democrat Congressional bloodbath in the mid-term elections was caused by the very unpopular health care law.

How about this for a top level domain - .genius? As in JimBlasingame.genius? Steve DelBianco joins Jim Blasingame to report on the new URL system ICANN will implement next year, which allows new domains other than the common .com and .net, and the pros and cons of the new system.

How your representatives vote on small business issues? Karen Kerrigan joins Jim Blasingame to discuss the possibility of Bush tax cut extensions, plus how to use the SBE Council’s Small Business Scorecard to become more informed on how your representatives vote.