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Is god awful. >> it should be. consider what happened. >>neil: and what? >>guest: let the market recover. we are freaked out about housing. we could be freaked out the broader economy is slowing but ultimately this is the correction that has to happen. >>neil: it is officially a correction, where so percent off the highs, for the dow, and close do that for the s&p, and normally the next stop is a bear market, at 20 percent. are we getting there? >>guest: look, i dont look at the dow. the russell...

To arab countries in a way that no american president ever has. >> laura: how is that working out? >> its not working out. iran is doing what it wants. >> laura: real barometer of success or not. >> the president could solve this problem by going to church a few times without causing a few traffic jams. bill. >> laura: we have no problems inconveniencing people on vacation. worried about inconveniencing people at saint johns church across the street from the white house? that seems odd. shut dow...

To arab countries in a way that no american president ever has. >> laura: how is that working out? >> its not working out. iran is doing what it wants. >> laura: real barometer of success or not. >> the president could solve this problem by going to church a few times without causing a few traffic jams. bill. >> laura: we have no problems inconveniencing people on vacation. worried about inconveniencing people at saint johns church across the street from the white house? that seems odd. shut dow...

Year. not as much obama mania this year. >> there is still to be clear, lots of businesses trying to capitalize on it. and the coffee shot the obama-cino. >> theres a muffin as well. razzbury and pineapple. >> however, one clear barometer is t-shirt sales are down. last year, the obama t-shirts were flying off the shelves. this year the t-shirt thats actually selling better than obama t-shirts is a president bush image that says miss me yet? >> oh, wow, thats the one selling and the favorability...

Say women are a barometer of success, theyre also a womanner the of the security situation. i would say strict interpretation of the religious laws. and one of the things that were highlighting is to learn what happened in iraq, particularly in 2006 and 2007, and take those lessons learned to afghanistan. not necessarily just the international community, but iraqi women themselves can share the lessons with afghan women. and one of the concerns, of course, as you mention is this strict interpret...

Rick: welcome back. "happening now," some hot tape for you in the top box. video capturing the moment two passenger train cars plunged into a river in china. in the middle box now, police releasing disturbing video of a violent brawl hoping to find a murder suspect. the person beating a tourist to death outside a lounge in miami beach. and in the bottom box, video of the so-called psychic australian crocodile. the reptile is now predicting that australian prime minister will be reelected. find o...

Barometer of where the voters are, marco rubio is leading that poll. but i suspect as we get through the primary season, youre going to see greater interest in the race and the voters are going to focus on the core issue i mentioned, which is are you going to advance the obama agenda or not? we see here in florida that president obamas numbers are tanking. people do not support the government takeover of our healthcare system and want to see a strong border security plan in place. and basically,...

$1.3 trillion. it was 1.4 last year to thats 100 billion taken out of the economy. deficits dont matter. ill qualify. when youre not at full employment, deficits dont matter. as a matter of fact thats a good barometer. useful employment to decide how big it should be. >> neil: full employment is 5%? you want to go for zero. >> anyone who wants to work, has a job. define that. >> neil: spend whatever it takes. >> yes. >> neil: mike, what if what we spent hasnt done that. you have to spend more....

Let me first tell you that normally, you want a company to make more money, because it got more customers. it had more money spent at its stores. thats not what happened at walmart. it actually saw sales drop a little bit. as consumers worried about this economy curbed spending. it got a higher profit by cutting costs, and that, while its good that they did it, the bottom line is you can only cut so much before you start to run into problems. so thats a bit of a concern. now, when you look at th...

Much money its going to make. and thats interesting, because home depot and its competitor, lowes, theyre a barometer, because they see people who are doing repairs to their houses. so maybe if youre not selling your house any time soon, you want to spruce it up. theyre also seeing people coming in and buying new appliances that are more energy-efficient as people worry about the cost of energy. maybe you need a new appliance, you might as well get one that saves money. so these two companies, b...