For better and for worse every President of the United States cooperates and sometimes conflicts with major business leaders.  Steve talks with Tevi Troy, author of The Power and the Money: The Epic Clashes Between Commanders in Chief and Titans of Industry.

Steve talks with Craig Leach, former Chief Executive Officer of Torrance Memorial Medical Center about the state of American medical care, what patients should expect and not expect from our hospitals, and how government both helps and hinders medical care.

Every year Child Protection Agencies across America are alerted to more than 7 million children who have experienced maltreatment. These reports result in over 400,000 children being removed from their homes and placed in an overburdened foster care system.  Steve talks with Joe Knittig www.careportal.org and with Ariel Moore www.osuokc.edu/cfsi about how to restore families while helping these vulnerable children.

Steve talks with Professor Bernard Tamas, author of The Demise and Rebirth of American Third Parties.

Steve talks with Amy Carney, author of Parent on Purpose: A Courageous Approach to Raising Children in a Complicated World.

Steve talks with David Charter, author of Royal Audience: 70 Years, 13 Presidents-One Queen’s Special Relationship with America.

Steve talks again with Johan Norberg, author of The Capitalist Manifesto: Why the Global Free Market Will Save the World.

Steve talks again with Kenneth T. Walsh, an award-winning Washington journalist who has covered the White House for US News & World Report since 1986, including every president since Ronald Reagan and author of The Architects of Toxic Politics in America: Venom and Vitriol

Steve talks with Michael Davis about how echos of the Cold War connect the chaos and confusion in American politics and culture.

Steve talks about the Social Narratives and Economic Realities with Economist Christopher Thornberg of www.beaconecon.com.