What are the prospects for success of Obama's infrastructure plan? Steve Malanga joins Jim Blasingame to explain what the President Elect's plan is and some of the challenges he will have in executing it.

Steve Forbes offers his thoughts on the economy, with Jim Blasingame, including government's attempts to help, as well as advice on how small businesses can survive through this recession.

There are forces that want to take control of the Internet away from the current successful operators. Steve Delbianco joins Jim Blasingame to talk about the debate over who should control ICANN and why small business owners should care.

How is the global recession impacting China and how will that impact small business? Ted Fishman joins Jim Blasingame with a report on what we should know about what's happening in China.

What will Bush's legacy be and what will be Obama's opportunity? Rich Galen joins Jim Blasingame to talk about this and other current political events and how they effect the world of small business.

What will the Obama administration and the 111th Congress have in store for small business? Karen Kerrigan provides a report in this interview with Jim Blasingame, including issues like taxes, health care, environment, etcc.

If the government has been so complicit in creating much of our economic crisis, why do we think they can help solve it? Jim Blasingame details many of the problems government has caused and why he thinks its intervention will ultimately be a problem.

As he has done for several years, Jim Blasingame looks into his Small Business Advocate Crystal Ball and reveals several of the things he predicts will happen in 2009.

For the past several years, Jim Blasingame has made annual predictions. But unlike many prognosticators, Jim returns at the end of the year to compare his predictions to reality. Listen as Jim reveals his 2008 predictions and his score.

In the long-term, will government intervention be good or bad for free market capitalism? Jim Blasingame explains why he things government bail-outs are a blessing that could turn into a curse, in time.