This is CBSI in the world.

I'm John Bachelors.

Welcome back, Gene Marks, my very good colleague reporting on the small businesses which are

American businesses.

He's a Guardian, UK, US columnist as well as our hometown newspaper The Philadelphia

Inquire and he's been on the road.

And he brings back a report of America here at the end of the third quarter beginning

of the fourth looking to the mysteries of the Federal Reserve, the politics of the moment

and also our trading partners in Europe and our customers and clients in Asia.

Everyone's at sea about what comes next in the recovery from the pandemic in the enormous

amount of money that flowed into the citizenry during those years that may be contributing

to the inflation.

Gene, welcome home, you were traveling, you were speaking, you were listening very carefully.

So I want to make sure we have your complete travelogue here.

You were in that Asheville, North Carolina talking to CPAs.

What are they worried about, Gene?

Good evening to you.

Hey, John.

I will.

By the way, we ain't done yet.

A lot more places to go between now and the end of the year, but so yes, I was in Asheville

I guess two weeks ago, talking to the North Carolina CPA societies, a few hundred people

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