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>> what are those? >> poker chips. these are all poke poker chips. $2.50, five, ten cent chips. like i said it is up to me to survive. my family does what they can but they cant do too much. they are retired and living off of a fixed income. i hustle. i feed off of it and do what i have to do. >> he earns commissary through onette r other method as well. >> my art. i normally dont have a lot of it because it is sold before i did it. i have a hanker chif i will be working on. i make them out of b...

Has taken on all of them. plus, a whos who of republican presidential hopefuls took to iowa, cruz rubio, walker paul huckabee, these are just a few. well break it down. but first nepal, one of the poorest countries in the world, is struggling to deal with the shock and devastation of this weekends earthquake. according to the world bank nepals per capita income $62.50 a month. if you want to help global aid organizations are taking your donations. just those the web sites of some of those you se...

This is absolutely free if youre willing to listen. to listen to a ten second ad there you go. this is the ad, and then once you go through the ten-second ad, ask for directory assistance anywhere in the world. >> how about that. >> great tips. so many hidden features and bells and whistles they dont teach you. great to see you. >> more online at the website. >> and good thing those pictures were tame. senator ted cruz, first ad for 2016. do republicans have what it takes to win the white hous...

2011. its allowed us to invest over 16,000 in our plants. >> the turn around in the auto industry in the last seven, nine years, has been remarkable. obviously, there was government help. >> not before. >> generally for the automobile industry. what lessons do you take away? there were a lot of people that tike american cars for dead not long ago. >> i can only speak for ford the question is have an outside view as opposed to a company out view and give customers the best safety fuel efficiency,...

Ground after a steep decline in january. gas prices are taking a breather. prices have fallen four cents to 2.50 a gallon nationwide. thats it for cnbc, first in business worldwide. ♪ [ piano background music begins ] ♪ when i was on wall street i felt trapped in that i was investing in a health care industry that i didnt believe in. for years i really struggled with this idea that people were making money off my illness and i wanted to do something different and so i finally made that chang...

Our highways, under the public transit system. with gas prices now under $2.50 a gallon, would you favor increasing the gas tax? >> i dont favor increasing any tax, chris. i think we have to look at all the options. we obviously have a big delta we have to meet. the highway bill expires at the end of may. and theres about $100 billion shortfall over what it would take to fund the highway trust fund at the current level of operation. so, obviously we have things to deal with here. there are a num...

Transit system. with gas prices now under $2.50 a gallon, would you favor increasing the gas tax? >> i dont favor increasing any tax, chris. i think we have to look at all the options. we obviously have a big delta we have to meet. the highway bill expires at the end of may. and theres about $100 billion shortfall over what it would take to fund the highway trust fund at the current level of operation. so, obviously we have things to deal with here. there are a number of ways you can deal with i...

Dollar cheaper than last year. thats really something to celebrate as we start 2015. i think that these prices are going to remain pretty stable in this kind of $2 to $2.50 a gallon range which is good news for the american consumer. every time the gasoline price falls, its a big stimulus to the american economy. it puts more money into the pockets of the american consumers and also you know businesses that are producing things. so thats a good news story and look. im confident about 2015 and on...

>> you might not get much of a raise at work but for many people, lower gas prices are acting as a substitute for a bigger pay check. take a look at the difference one year makes. today the average price per gallon of gas, $2.24. last year new years day it was $3.29 but the question comes, should you be preparing for a rainy day when gas prices starting to up again? joining us now, steve moore, chief economist for the heritage foundation. so new year 2015, a lot of folks would say that the econo...

Like 50% of the gdp. were less exposed. youre right. thats a potential anchor. >> im going to look at the "wall street journal" this morning, and winter cool is what one of the graph shows. its oil. what will happen to oil as we look at this, you know, it just fell. will that continue in 2015? will it resume to what we believe to be normal market pricing? >> well, let me tell you what the conventional wisdom is on this. its very important for listeners to realize the following. almost nobody as ...