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Leader dick durbin, the two men who have been at the table. congress hearing from all sides on the fiscal cliff and heading up a coalition of business and economic leaders in the fix the debt campaign, where do you sense the players are right now in terms of whether theyll go interest a small deal, band-aid approach or grand bargain. >> the good news is while its a nail biter, thats for sure, we all wish we could solve some of these problems without going to the brink like we do in politics, i t...

Find a more cohesive government in greece, the creation potential over the next couple days over a coalition of parties that will stick with the bailout terms. the parliament building behind my shoulder here where you have 300 seats. the hope is a coalition which has a majority in that parliament will agree to stick by the bailout term for what is a multi hundred billion dollar program of austerity which means theyll continue to get money from the eu which means it wont necessarily be the first ...

You can see the bain attacks are backfiring. obama is losing support amongst his own base and the women. he is not doing well in the swing states. they near trouble if this is the best they have, no way its going to have legs through the election. >> i agree with you. yet, eric, tell me if you werent amazed to read that the president is holding fund-raisers with people from the financial services industry. >> that doesnt surprise me. hes smart. people from the financial services industry give to...

The s&p has declined to comment on the possibility that an announcement is eminent. just last month, though, the s&p placed 15 of the 17 euro zone countries on watch, on watch for this potential downgrade because of the debt problems. were seeing the red arrows across the board there. the dow jones down by nearly 100. all of this is helping continually push the stocks lower. stocks already opened lower today after a pretty disappointing earnings report this morning by jpmorgan chase. well watch ...

We are back with ann a marie slaughter, ian bremmer, dan. in the economist edition you edit, you say we spent the last years talking about the debt problems, get ready for china. we think of china as the worlds greatest creditor. >> china massively supported our economy in the response to the credit crunch that happened in 2007, 2008. that is now a huge problem. they face the difficulty of controlling that at a time when the chinese economy is also slowing generally. bear in mind 2012 is a year ...

>> harris: retailers like wal-mart relying on deals to attract shoppers. analysts waiting to hear just how successful they were today since consumer spending accounts for two thirds of all economic activity. meanwhile, they are no doubt focusing on the debt problems in europe. u.s. stocks ended their worst week in two months today. the dow off 26 points. the nasdaq down 19. and the s&p 500 down 3. the markets this week alone down nearly 5%. well, its not just the members of our military giving t...

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Dominance, including names on the screen, when they translate sales overseas they are getting less bang for the buck because the dollar is richer here so it boomerangs and ironically that helps the euro, wouldnt it so everybody is cool, right? >>guest: well, the euro is the problem, so, the feeling is if it helps the euro it is hurting the world. the euro is a destructive force. >>neil: do you see the euro thing falling apart, that is what is going on, it is disintegrating and they are trying to...

Stories and compare it today. home depot is too crowded to say there is he a depression in housing today. its in trouble, okay, its slow. >> and how many people you know building houses. >> brenda: give him a chance, go ahead, jonas. >> i would say i do not think were going to have another recession, these are fear-based items whether its the european debt problems or-- these are all, you can psych yourself into a depression, but we dont have a class business sector like you had in the last majo...