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The dollar has never been as weak as it is now. if you bench mark the real with a basket of currencies, we realize the real didnt appreciate that much. >> thats about currency. what about inflation. >> translator: inflation today is going up less so than china or other countries. we have taken action to slow down the economy, the credit expansion and succeeded. the brazilian economy grew 7.5% last year, this year, 4.a%. its growing less. >> now that you mention china and your government being ve...

Teachers and students and parents and communities, is that no child left behind got some things right and got some things wrong. we need not only to hold failing schools accountable. but help turn those schools around. in the 21st century it is not enough to leave no child behind. >> martha: does this mean that no child left behind will be left behind. former chancellor of the dc schools joins us to weigh in. good morning great to have you here. you are obviously an expert. i am well, thank you....

Something to grow your money. >> and specifically, this is the part youre not going to like so much, getting the performance of the benchmark index. im not talking about shooting the lights out, im talking about getting the performance of the s&p 500 or the dow or whatever your bench mark is over time. you know what, if you do that, youre ahead of 90% of people. >> and those benchmarks historically do quite nicely. >> yeah. >> theyll return 10% or more in the average year over time. thats fine. ...

Could be lost. when you sad this bill and all of the corruption associated with it, where do we stand? >> massachusetts had the democratic candidates potential 15 points behind barack owe barometer ma. use another bench mark the real clear politics average on healthcare polls right now shows 40 percent in favor. 49 gensz. th -- against. that 40 is 14 points behind what barack obama got. use a 13 points drop in obama is the political reality om of these people make. sometimes you have different c...

President of the united states? >> well, i think to look at any one day is nothing that we have -- weve always cautioned. i think overall it continues to be up tremendously. i think when you look at not just that one indicator, you probably know better than anybody in terms of what you guys cover. that you cant look at one index and say that that is the bench mark of an entire economy. you see confidence levels in small business and other surveys that show there is continued confidence in the ma...

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He said that. he said that what we propose, and i quote, "is even worse than bankruptcy." he said it would make gm, "the living dead." newt gingrich said, "a mistake." but the guy i work with every day, the president, he didnt flinch. thats the kind of president, in my view, we all want, a president with the courage of his convictions. a president willing to take risks on behalf of american workers and the american people, and folks, thats exactly what we have, a president with the courage of hi...

But that seems to be going away so we probably wont see it for a while, the euro going back up to 1.38 and above as weve seen in recent weeks. looking at the market numbers you were talking about. pretty mixed in asia. tokyo and sydney, early markets to finish higher. tokyo following wall streets positive session. the main bench mark in australia touching a ten-month high. resource stocks are a big part of sydneys stock exchange. in seoul, the kospi was down on concerns of a possible interest ...

It has to be capped. >> david: we have to cap the salaries now? >> what are you going to cap them at? $800,000? we have to bench mark them to see if they do jobs like people in other industries in the private sector and elsewhere in the country and the government. just get it to a standard so we know how to operate. this is a particular outrage. bonuses on wall street we heard about. $1.6 billion given after we bailed them out. thats just as bad. people have to have standards! >> david: steve, s...