Hour one: ‘Threat’ of a government shutdown; Harvard study on impact of raising minimum wage; Mortality tables and how to plan for a long future; The new fashion trend: Pre-soiled jeans. 

Hour two: Dr. Richard Ebeling, economics professor at The Citadel; Declining number of new business start-ups; Has the US lost its entrepreneurial spirit? Short answer, no.; The effect of the Canadian soft-wood lumber tariff