Have you ever felt like escaping to your own desert island?

Jane Gaskin did exactly that, trading in the family home to begin a new life in the

tropics.

But she soon discovers that Paradise has its secrets.

I'm Alice Levine, and this is the price of Paradise,

the island dream that ends in kidnap, corruption, and murder. Wish you were here. Follow the price of Paradise Now wherever

you listen to podcasts. I'm John Batsw with my good friend Gene Marks back from the road, our Road Warrior, and we've exhausted his East Coast trips.

We're now heading west and we're going to stop in Kansas City.

This is a small business survey of associations that gather men and women from all over the country.

And so far in the first iteration, Genes reported higher costs, higher costs for money, higher costs for supplies, higher

costs in general, though business is good, the overhead worries everybody because

we've had these reversals and inflation expectations.

We now go to Kansas City's Cornerstone Credit Union League. Is that lending money for housing? For what,

Jane? No, well, you know, one of the misperceptions about credit unions in this country is that

they're associated with companies or maybe their only real estate but no no

Cornerstone Credit Union League is a is a your an association of multiple credit unions in the

Midwest you know Kansas and neighboring states.

Credit unions have become a very much of a growing and important part of the financing world

for small businesses. Now, you know, you're not a customer of a credit union, John,

you're a member of a credit union, remember that.

And they are looking to expand.

There's a lot of competition in the financing space

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