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Chad Moutray joins Jim Blasingame to report on the impact the USMCA and China Phase One trade deals just signed will have on manufacturing, including report that the trade negotiation period didn’t have too bad of an effect.

Chad Moutray joins Jim Blasingame to report on the Q4 2019 Manufacturers Survey, which shows small and mid-size manufacturers are more optimistic about the future than are large manufacturers.

Bill Treasurer joins Jim Blasingame to discuss the fact that most of us aren’t that good at achieving the goals we set, how to differentiate reactive and proactive goals, and how to achieve the ones we set.

Marc Lieberstein joins Jim Blasingame to report that based on the Trump administration’s behavior and recent court rulings, it seems that the attacks on the franchise industry’s employment structure may be abating.

Marc Lieberstein joins Jim Blasingame to report on how union organization and state and federal governments wanting to collect more taxes, have led to a parasitic regulatory and court assault on the franchise industry over employment structures.

Marc Lieberstein joins Jim Blasingame to report on the multi-year history of assault – beginning with the Obama administration – on the U.S. franchise industry’s relationship between franchisor and franchisee employees.

Kara Hoogensen joins Jim Blasingame to report on the Principal 2020 Well-Being Index for small businesses, which shows that over two-thirds are very optimistic about their businesses.

Joe Tankersley joins Jim Blasingame to report on how the 2020s will be replete with disruptions for tourism, consumer products, and all levels of government, largely due to responses to innovations in technology.

Joe Tankersley joins Jim Blasingame to reveal some of the disruptive things to look for in the next decade regarding health care and education, almost all associated with demographic response to technology.

Joe Tankersley joins Jim Blasingame to reveal the reasons why the 2020s will be a decade of disruptions that will be unprecedented in category and scope.

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