Episodes

  • Wintrust Business Lunch 7/22/24: Global outage cost, new home prices, Illinois quantum

    Wintrust Business Lunch 7/22/24: Global outage cost, new home prices, Illinois quantum
    Jul 22 2024
    Segment 1: Ilyce Glink, owner of Think Glink Media and Best Money Moves, joins John to talk about the cost of last week’s global outage, and new homes being cheaper per square foot than existing homes. Segment 2: Jim Dallke, Director of Communications, TechNexus Venture Collaborative, tells John about a new report finding that Chicago venture capital firms are increasingly investing in startups […]
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  • Wintrust Business Minute: P33 says Chicago startups have trouble pulling in local capital

    Wintrust Business Minute: P33 says Chicago startups have trouble pulling in local capital
    Jul 22 2024
    Steve Grzanich has the business news of the day with the Wintrust Business Minute. A new report says there are significant challenges accessing capital in Chicago’s tech ecosystem. A local nonprofit, P33, says early-stage startups are having trouble pulling in local capital, even though Chicago has the third-largest gross domestic product in the country. The […]
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  • Wintrust Business Minute: Metra, McDonald’s and United impacted by CrowdStrike outage

    Wintrust Business Minute: Metra, McDonald’s and United impacted by CrowdStrike outage
    Jul 19 2024
    Steve Grzanich has the business news of the day with the Wintrust Business Minute. United Airlines isn’t the only Chicago area company impacted by the CrowdStrike outage. McDonald’s and and Metra also reported problems. Three Metra-Union Pacific routes had delays that the transit agency blamed on on the CrowdStrike outage. An update of the cybersecurity […]
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  • Wintrust Business Lunch 7/19/24: Trump v. Biden economy, Alpine Fest, Hallie225 Foundation

    Wintrust Business Lunch 7/19/24: Trump v. Biden economy, Alpine Fest, Hallie225 Foundation
    Jul 19 2024
    Segment 1: Michael Miller, Economics Professor, Western Washington University and Professor Emeritus at DePaul University, chats with John about a recent opinion piece in the Washington Post comparing the economies of former president Trump and President Joe Biden. Segment 2: Alison Rigsby, past president of The Lake Zurich Lions Club, joins John to talk about the 2024 (and 79th […]
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  • Wintrust Business Lunch 7/18/24: Stock market rotation, high food prices, Jeff Buys Your House

    Wintrust Business Lunch 7/18/24: Stock market rotation, high food prices, Jeff Buys Your House
    Jul 18 2024
    Segment 1: Steven Esposito, President of Yellowstone Wealth Management in Lake Forest, talks to John about the consumers willingness to spend, how we are starting to see a broadening of the market, good retail sales data, the signal that interest rates are coming down, and what would interest rate cuts mean for the market and economy heading into […]
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  • Wintrust Business Minute: ExxonMobil power outage could cause gas prices to spike

    Wintrust Business Minute: ExxonMobil power outage could cause gas prices to spike
    Jul 18 2024
    Steve Grzanich has the business news of the day with the Wintrust Business Minute. Gas prices could spike in the Chicago area after a power outage impacted the ExxonMobil refinery near Joliet. Damaged transmission towers have been fixed but it’s unclear whether power’s been fully restored to the facility. It lost service for several days. […]
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  • Wintrust Business Minute: John Deere is planning for more layoffs

    Wintrust Business Minute: John Deere is planning for more layoffs
    Jul 17 2024
    Steve Grzanich has the business news of the day with the Wintrust Business Minute. Farm machinery maker Deere & Co. is planning more layoffs. The Moline-based company has notified salaried employees there’ll be additional global salaried workforce reductions beginning July 24th. The company says the decision is due to declining customer demand, rising costs, and […]
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  • Wintrust Business Lunch 7/17/24 – Terry Savage: Will the Dow hit 44K this year?

    Wintrust Business Lunch 7/17/24 – Terry Savage: Will the Dow hit 44K this year?
    Jul 17 2024
    Nationally syndicated financial columnist and author Terry Savage joins John Williams to talk about how she is able to avoid financial scams, the Dow and S&P both performing extremely well this year, the inflation environment having a better outlook, and how many Fed rate cuts we will see this year, how AI is impacting the economy, and the importance […]
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