I take a few minutes to pontificate on the business news the Standard & Poors downgraded the United States Government’s credit rating to negative from neutral.
Margo Berman is a creativity expert who specializes in sponBRAINeous combustion. She helped us get our creative juices flowing by sparking our right-brain thinking. We discussed her book Street Smart Advertising.
Tim Walsh had his game idea turned down by every toy company in America. Did that deter him? No. He went on to produce and sell the game himself. We discuss the toy and game industry in the United States and have him give some of the history behind many of our favorite toys.
Nancy Altman is an authority on private pensions and Social Security. She was Alan Greenspan’s assistant in 1983 when he worked on the Social Security amendments. We discuss the Battle for Social Security and hear her “almost painless” plan for putting the program back on track.
William J. Tobin is a serial entrepreneur and inventor. He holds more than 15 patents, has started more than 10 companies and is considered an Internet entrepreneur. We discuss why being an entrepreneur is the most secure job position one can have during difficult economic times from his book Confessions of a Compulsive Entrepreneur and Inventor.
It’s nearly tax day. William Federert is an historian who gives us the history behind income taxes in America from his book The Interesting History of Income Tax.