Thursday, March 18, 2010
Are you celebrating the incremental accomplishments of your small business? Even just the fact that you've survived the Great Recession? Jim Blasingame talks about why you should do this and how.
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.
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.
What are small business owners happy about? Beverly Inman-Ebel joins Jim Blasingame to report on a recent survey of what small business owners are doing about maintaining a positive attitude.
Reporting on current economic issues, Joan Pryde joins Jim Blasingame to talk about productivity gains, challenges in the housing industry among other economic indicators.
Reporting on tax issues affecting small business, Kiplinger's Joan Pryde talks with Jim Blasingame about jobs creation tax deductions, Section 179 direct expending and other elements of the evolving tax code.
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.





























