Eric Groves joins Jim Blasingame to report on the Alignable survey that shows small businesses reporting they saw consumer and business customer confidence lagging.

Eric Groves joins Jim Blasingame to discuss whether there should be another round of PPP money for small businesses, and if so, what can be learned from the original program.

Tony Uphoff joins Jim Blasingame to report on the STEM resources Thomas is offering to help prepare our children with the marketplace preparation they need to pursue a 21st century manufacturing career.

Tony Uphoff joins Jim Blasingame to discuss how a career in manufacturing in 21st century America is high-tech without necessarily requiring a college degree, but does require understanding technical processes.

Tony Uphoff joins Jim Blasingame to discuss how the coronavirus has exposed areas of single-sources and why we’ll have to plan for more redundancy going forward, especially in the supply chain.

Jim Blasingame reveals four examples of how our relationship with the word redundant, and the concept of redundancy, will be much more favorable toward them in the post-pandemic economy.

Jim Blasingame reveals why your business will be required to demonstrate redundant sources and systems as an expectation from larger customers and how to prepare for that.

Ted Fishman joins Jim Blasingame to discuss new building products that are being created with sustainability methods that accrue to a more carbon-neutral marketplace.

Ted Fishman joins Jim Blasingame to discuss the new carbon-reduction pledge by China, and how that could become a geopolitical gamechanger both in terms of the marketplace and the power structure.

Ted Fishman joins Jim Blasingame to remind that almost everything that the Chinese government does has the underlying goal of creating disorder somewhere else, which always included the U.S.