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president biden will soon give the pr co the commencement address. aaa says 35 million of you will take a trip for the holiday. and that is a slight increase from a year ago. the average person will travel 50 miles or more from home by the time memorial day weekend comes to a close on monday. and if youre driving, well, you might just save a little money over the next few days. the price for a gallon of unleaded gas has dropped 27 cents from its april heise to $3.66. but aaa says t...

>> with romney and bain capital, the objective was to make money. whether the companies they came in and worked with make money or not is irrelevant. bain capital always made money. if we lost, they made money. if we survived, they made money. its as simple as that. >> thats kind of what rush limbaugh was talking about, running against capitalism. >> well, this is actually what i do each time obama comes out with a negative ad. i run a thing on my web site, dickmorris.com where i play the ad and...

Just like a super markt. were like wall mart. we sell you polka dot dresses. >> thats the first thing that jamie dimon said on his phone call. one of which is that youre allowed to hedge at the portfolio level. the statute, and by the statute, i mean the law written into dodd-frank said that you can hedge an aggregate. hedging at the portfolio level is we add up all of the traders positions and try to define some hedge for them at a macro level. and that usually doesnt make sense, except in a co...

Jenna: speaking of that, both sides of the aisle have pointed to european said, really our recovery is going to be dependent on what happens in europe because more or less we are inching along here at home. seeing again this switch in power in france and also in greece, what does that tell uts about the futurus about the future here at home? >> i dont think the recovery here is dependent on europe. certainly europe is a larger economy in aggregate than the kwrorld economy. for world growth it ma...

You are purchasing power, your dollar, now, is worth, you will is to work doubly as hard to by the same can of coca-cola that you did as time goes on. >>neil: but everyone says in the aggregate the food items notwithstanding, inflation is not a problem and house prices are going south, computer and technology equipment, not moving price wise, so, net, net, net, no problem? >>guest: i disagree. what you will see is especially in the coming months, neil, there is talk of quantitative easing number...

Its obviously tons of money. its crazy what our candidates and legislators spend dialing for dollars, but in aggregate, its something less than the u.s. spends on potato chips or soft drinks. so should we really be jumping off a cliff when political campaigning costs this much? i want to hear you react to it. >> its not the percent of the gdp im worried about, its our impact on the democracy and whaet being put forth. mitt romney and president obama, both of their campaigns are going to tons of ...

before. at last slow down in that trend. private sector is carrying things here, no question. but the private sector slowing down a bit too, ali. >> christine, something that you and i study very carefully, this is a consumer-driven economy, so we study retail sales. the retail sales for the last month came out this week, and they were exceptionally strong. much stronger than economists were expecting. so why did we see losses in retail jobs? >> its so interesting, because you saw 33,8...

Justice kagan had to say. >> aggregate of all uninsured people are increasing the normal family premium congress says by $1,000 a year. those people, are in commerce. theyre making decisions. >> reporter: doesnt seem like her vote is in question. it is justice kennedy everybody is waiting for. bill: so this morning you have a session. and this afternoon you have another one, first time they have done that last week. the argument is over medicaid. what the issue there, shannon. >> reporter: 26 st...

Way. >> shannon: though kennedy was undecided but many colleagues are not. ginsberg and kagen said those that are not insured are having an impact on existing stream of economic activity. here is justice kagen. >> the aggregate of all these uninsured people are increasing the normal family premium, congress says, by a thousand dollars a year. those people are in commerce. they are making decisions. >> equal unconvinced. scalia he hinted he may be open to the idea of mandate. today he made the po...

Racist. >> sean: im not saying that about him. but i want to go to this. what im saying this is not the controversial association as far as im concerned. the media never invented him. you brought up the story of jeremiah wright, when you first brought it up, when you brought all those people up and the way he has governed and now professor bell. what are we to conclude? >> well, part of the problem we have here is in the aggregate there is more and more of this incremental acceptance of radical ...