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2. 64. Our road map begins with with the fax shutting down for the first time in 17 years. 800 federal workers furloughed. Merck cutting an additional 8,500 jobs, aiming to reduce annual operating costs by 2. 5 billion. All of that. Plus more and mad moneys big milestone tonight. First, the federal government has begun a Government Shutdown. 800,000 federal workers will be furloughed today with national parks, smithsonian, museums, most federal offices closing. We mentioned what gold is doing. W...

Can Less Government lead to more proctivity . Productivity growth is a crucial but almost invisible element in our economic wellbeing, something we take for granted until it slows down. That happened in the 1970s. We had a blizzard of suggestions for dealing with productivity. How do we get more for less . With the help of analyst richard gill, well examine that question on economics usa. Im david schoumacher. Captioning made possible by the Annenberg Cpb project economists see the world in term...

The white house responded, saying the g. O. P. Proposal does not meet the test of balance. In fact, it actually promises to lower rates for the wealthy and sticks the middle class with the bill. Its not just the federal government under pressure. Credit Ratings Agency fitch calls the fiscal cliff the biggest concern for state credit in 2013. Saying, any meaningful federal deficit reduction is likely to lower state funding, forcing Program Elimination or backfilling. As the tax hikes and spending...

The white house responded, saying the g. O. P. Proposal does not meet the test of balance. In fact, it actually promises to lower rates for the wealthy and sticks the middle class with the bill. Its not just the federal government under pressure. Credit Ratings Agency fitch calls the fiscal cliff the biggest concern for state credit in 2013. Saying, any meaningful federal deficit reduction is likely to lower state funding, forcing Program Elimination or backfilling. As the tax hikes and spending...

Fiscal cliff deadline, today House Republicans sent the president a counteroffer, calling for big cuts to entitlement spending, and no new taxes on the wealthy. Tom im tom hudson. Auto sales speed up in november, with buyers taking advantage of ultracheap financing to ditch their old cars. Susie ford takes the wraps off a new lincoln, taking the brand back to its heritage, but will a rebranding help revup sales, we ask ford c. E. O. Alan mulally. Tom that and more tonight on n. B. R. after a wee...

After a weekend of trading accusations over the lack of progress on avoiding the fiscal cliff, both sides now have put their opening offers on the table. Last week, it was treasury secretary Timothy Geithner meeting with top republicans. This afternoon, House Speaker john boehner sketched out the g. O. P. Proposal in a letter to the white house, and the proposal borrows suggestions from the president s own Debt Reduction commission, whose plan was ignored last year. The republican letter offered...

My shoulder and any president that puts his hand on your shoulder gets your attention. Reagan was one of those historic figures. He said look it took us half a century to get into this mess. I have been the first seven years. Maybe you guys will have to do the heavy lifting on your own later. This is particularly special to me because so many people in this room have been a part of the process of my writing the book. I mean, everybody. Im looking around and seeing people who counseled me through...

Time since 2012. Maybe stocks are slowing because of the hunt for yield, the tenyear treasury note below 2. 6 . Whats that sound . It is realtors dancing as Mortgage Rates are likely to fall back again. Europe as you can see with the exception of what looks to be switzerland or lichtenstein is down. Our road map begins with apple and one very large acquisition. Talks to buy beats headphones, dont forget the streaming service for 3. 2 billion and create the first hiphop billionaire, we will addre...

A company has set its ipo share at above marketing range. Jd has not turned in an alley an annual profit, unlike alibaba. Twitter has elected all of its firstors, including the woman to join twitters board. The announcement came at twitters first shareholder meeting. Theyhit a they hit a high in december. And lenovo has a strong quarter. Their laptop and desktop shipments rose in the quarter despite in overall industry decline. They are making a dent in the smartphone business with its smart pho...

Weinberg partners has a new ceo. Bob steele,pointed who also has worked many years at goldman sachs. Steele was the ceo of walkover you. It is a whopper of a return for mcdonalds stockholders. They plan to return as much as 20 billion to shareholders by 2016. That will come in the form of buybacks and dividends. Hasaliant pharmaceuticals raised its unsolicited takeover offer for allergan, boosting boosting the cash portion. In more on this, lets bring cristina alesci. It seems like bill ackman a...