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I often take a position, michael, like you, i want each candidate to try to help formulate their own positions in the best way they can to avoid the personal invective in the social behavior we sometimes see in these silly seasons. but no, i dont work for them. >> let me show what you carly fiorina wrote for cnn.com. she said hewlett-packard not only survived the dot-com bust, we also became the leader in every market segment and product category in which we completed. we doubled revenue to over...

The personal invective in the some of the kind of anti-social behavior we sometimes see in this silly season. but no, i dont work for them. >> let me show what you carly fiorina wrote for cnn.com. just last month, august 13th. she said hewlett-packard not only survived the dot-com bust, we also became the leader in every market segment and product category in which we competed. we doubled revenue to over $80 billion. we quadrupled the growth rate to 6.5%. we triple innovation to produce an avera...

Time, the dot-com bust. despite the tough times, they were tough decisions, we took a company from 44 billion to almost 90 billion, quadrupled its cash flow. went from lagging behind everywhere to leading everywhere. yes, i was fired. at the end of that six years in a boardroom brawl. i was fired because, when you challenge the status quo, which is what leaders must do you make enemyiesenemies. its one of the reasons so few people choose to lead. we need a leader in the oval office who will chal...

Takes a certain type of person. very few make it, but the ones that do feel like rock stars entitled to behave however they see fit. sounds familiar to the complaints we hear about athletes making it into the headlines for all of the wrong reasons. do you believe the wall street culture has truly changed today or is it a bit underground? >> i think it is more underground. the structure of wall street changed. a lot of reforms have the dot com bust. the financial crisis. back in 2001, we had a hu...

>> 20 years ago right after the dot-com bust. >> may want to set up an offshore server. >> are politicians worse than ever, or do we just know more about them? >> why do they want to keep their jobs in the first place? once you are caught being a creep embrace being a creep. i am hanging out with joe francis now. thats my life. why does everyone want to keep their job? i think we know more about them, and i think what we are finding out is white dudes are creeps. >> vote for women. >> it is true...

Is a bear and they say they are actually expecting a pullback because they say for one reason this time of year is kind of slow for stocks, youre not going to see the volume push stocks that high. also the end of government funding. thats going to kick in at the end of the month, not to mention the big debt ceiling debate will be happening in a couple weeks as well. it may seem the market is numb to that now but many believe that could lead to a pullback. of course the one savior could be the fe...

14,300. that would bring the gain, to 9, 9 1/2% just for this calendar year. in other words, martha, the market is ignoring president obama. the president has said, hey, it is armageddon with when we get the budget cuts. the dow plows through that and keeps going up. by the way, the nasdaq, that is where the technology stocks have their niche, the nasdaq is close to the level it was right after the dot-com bust, all the way back to november of the year 2000. that is where technology stocks have ...

60 points up, 60 points up for the dow in 22 minutes time. martha: im curious, stuart, what happened to the individual investor? back in the early days of these big highs, 2000, 2001 and up through 2007 there were so many people across the country so heavily invested in the stock market. a lot of that changed after the big crash. >> yes. wall street went out of fax after the dot-com bust and then after the crash of 08 and 09. people just did not want to know from wall street. they were right out...

lead analysts at morgan stanley, the main underwriter for the facebook ipo, received privileged information about the company, information that they didnt share with retail investors. finra, the financial industry regulation authority, regulatory authority, the u.s. senate banking committee, and the commonwealth of massachusetts have all announced probes into the matter, and that was quickly followed by a lawsuit filed by some investors against facebook and its ceo, mark zuckerberg, al...

Cautious about this it might know be the next google, it might be the next groupon, investor beware. >> jon: on the frenzy and hype meter judy, where are we? >> i think just about right. i think questions raised whether or not the stock is going to be worth what its going for an and lot of gosh, even more concentration on the young man who started it all. i do think that fox and other networks have covered the saverin business and have covered thanks to the movie a lot of people who made faceboo...