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This is your way of voting. >> theres a couple of things. theres still a confidence issue. you look at the fed chief saying essentially i dont know what its going to look like here. is it a double dip recession? i dont know. >> that didnt help. larry summers agreed with him. >> right, secretary geithner does not zbragree with that per. a lot of ceos dont agree with that either. they dont think theres another dip coming. but you also have the housing market. as long as the housing market is still...

Occurring across the country. i think its important for us to make sure that we stay focused on taking real action, and i think that has to be done in a two-step way and done in order if we really want to get to the root cause of this issue and find a real solution, the first being getting to the bottom of it, conducting this investigation, understanding the depth of this problem. that must happen first. and the second step is then figuring out who is the best person to lead the charge to fight ...

Things like that, consumer confidence, those numbers are not great right now. what are the trends you guys look at on "squawk box" and cnbc. >> we look at the confidence numbers, and those dont reflect positively. oddly enough and it comes back -- ill say it over and over again. the ceos you talk to over and over again, their companies are not falling off a cliff the way youd expect them to. the question becomes, what are they doing with the earnings? and unfrortunately, theyre not investing in ...