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Fuel per driver and that adds up. diesel is more expensive than gasoline on a dollar for dollar basis, and now its surged a ronald-high. >> trucks are what keeps our economy going. >> reporter: todd spencer is the president and independent owner/operator. >> fuel is the single largest variable expense that any truckers going to incur if youre operating the truck yourself. if you own your own truck, thats your largest single cost. >> reporter: for the independent truck driver, they have to absorb...

Union? >> soviet union is a more rival, it claims that many liberals in the united states believe including the economist never got close and never got beyond 40% beside the u.s. economy. china by at least one major is a larger economy than the united states. on a current dollar basis it could take the united states in the next ten or 15 years. the soviets never got anything like that close in economic terms. in nuclear terms, china is stilr way behind where is the soviet union achieved power wi...

Soviet union despite its claim it is that it would overtake the united states claims that many liberals in the united states believe include the grace and economist pollms never got clos. it never got much beyond 40% the size of the u.s. economy. peak and it fell away. china by at least one measure is a ready larger economy than the united states. on a current dollar basis it could well overtake the united states in next ten or 15 years. so the the soviets never got anything like that close in e...

The soviet union was. >> it certainly a far more plausible economic blindfold. even despite its claims that it would overtake the united states, claims that many liberals in the united states believe including paul sanderson but it never got close. china, by at least one measure is already a larger economy than the united states. on a current dollar basis, it could overtake the united states in the next ten or 15 years. the soviets never got anything like that in economic terms. in nuclear terms...

A greater threat to us than the soviet union was. >> it certainly a far more plausible economic blindfold. even despite its claims that it would overtake the united states, claims that many liberals in the united states believe including paul sanderson but it never got close. china, by at least one measure is already a larger economy than the united states. on a current dollar basis, it could overtake the united states in the next ten or 15 years. the soviets never got anything like that in econ...

Does nothing to encourage new investment. >> "new york times," likely to increase inequality in america. does that track with your reporting? >> every single income group would get a tax cut and percentage basis, lower income households get a greater percentage. but dollar basis, so much more to the wealthier households. could make the argument increases inequality. republicans fire back, businesses have incentive to raise wages but lot of businesses say theyre going to give out dividends instea...

Most importants not what low oil priceless do to the economy, what theyre telling us about the future of the economy. that is, the overall economic growth could be much lower in 2015 than people think. in fact, i think gdp on a nominal basis could be lowered globally next year than in 2014. >> steve, one thing thats lower, at the end of the week they got a boost with the market, but energy stocks are way down over the past year. >> well, they are. and this decline in oil was coupled as it was in...

>> thats what happened with the ai all kind of the same and suddenly its even steven again. >> youve got a bunch of cards in your wallet and feel really special, here i am and it is rather silly and the other thing is it really rewards the people who are the spenders. theres another important part of the customer base and thats the senders, the influencers who maybe dont spend as much money with you, but they tell everybody that they know. >> connectors. >> and they are a very important part of ...

International ant research. >> love that one. >> thats a good one. >> were getting to the good ones. $308 million for a joint clean energy venture with british petroleum. does that kind of burn you? number one, this is my favorite. $554,000 for the forest service to replace windows in a closed visitors center in mount st. helen. ladies and gentlemen, thats the top five. those are my favorite. how geitner or anyone in the government can defend that is totally beyond me. >> well, you know, jonas m...

Medicaid. >> its never going to happen, isnt it? the assumption is you can cut a half trillion out of medicare. medicare recipients vote. you think theyre going to allow that? thats out of the question. >> if it was fraud 99.9% would be in favor of cutting that amount of fraud. that remains to be seen. heres how theyre going to pay for it, theyll start taxing everybody first before any of the so-called benefits kick in. >> yes. how can you have most peoples premiums go down if youre taxing the p...