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>> neil: what is happening? we are not getting some evidence that you dont like to make a big deal of jobless numbers with the high but its a volatile number. of late, economic numbers, which had been getting better, decidedly slowed the pace and thats raising concerns of a double dip. maybe what the market sees is that. what do you think? >> this is a slowdown and consumers are not spending money. businesses are not hiring people and washington and the fed is out of bullets. washington seems to...

How much healthcare will cost. we talked to tom freedman and he said we need a basic restructuring. is there any one thing that could be done to prevent a double-dip recession? >> clearly the amount of money in terms of stimulus close to a trillion hasnt helped that much when you look at a 9.5% unemployment rate. one thing is for the government to get out of the way and give us some certainty way its going to cost to hire someone, not just the end of the year, but four years from now. well see -...

Things. bill: governor, thank you very much. we asked this question yesterday. we are asking it again today on our online poll, should president obama have stayed out of the mosque debate? yes or no. log on, count your vote, weigh in as so many others have. you may be surprised. its somewhat split. 55%, 45%. online right now. martha: thank you so as much for coming to our show today. here is the big question on the minds of everybody watching this economy. are we going to get a double dip before...

Blago is broke so if there is a new trial he can ask for taxpayer dollars to pay for his defense. martha: what about the reality show. hes been making money. before all this happened not a lot of people in the country can name him, now ill bet a large amount of them can. bill: i was waiting to see what he had to say. he did not disappoint. martha: the recession hitting many cities quite hard. now we get a new warning that it could get worse. well tell you what economists are saying. you hear a l...

Day. thats not the kind of double dip we are talking about here. bill: house speaker nancy pelosi refusing to comment on the mosque controversy in new york. but she does want to know who is funding the opposition. martha: she has got a gun. hes got the force of the law behind him. about its no match for the bees. [ male announcer ] the ram 60-day handshake.

>> neil: nothings working. >> because of the nature of the shock. we came into the system overinvested in housing, overinvested in the financial sector and we were overleveraged. all those shocks came home to roost and now the economy is faced with the difficult task of reallocating resources and getting back to some sort of normal pace. >> neil: how long will getting back anything -- >> it may take a long time. >> neil: whats a long time? >> years. >> neil: people who fear a double dip, another...

More air time on the double-dips. bill: vic knows his stuff, right? hes got air time! took him five hours to complete the marathon riding session. happy guy near pittsburgh. martha: getting more air on the double-dip. got to remember that one! change may be coming to california. change to how candidates reach out to voters. but critics are fearing the new rules could get in the way of free speech. here to explain, anita vogel from los angeles tell us, how does this work? >> hi there martha. ba...

>> bret: if you google double-dip recession, you can find unpleasant predictions about the danger to the u.s. economy, but how real is the prospect? we report, you decide. chief washington correspondent jim angle. >> reporter: a troubling question circulating in financial circles, is the nation economy headed back toward recession? what is known as a double dip? >> the odds are rising. i say they are uncomfortablely high. i dont think we will experience a double dip. if i had to put odds on it, ...

>> bret: if you google double-dip recession, you can find unpleasant predictions about the danger to the u.s. economy, but how real is the prospect? we report, you decide. chief washington correspondent jim angle. >> reporter: a troubling question circulating in financial circles, is the nation economy headed back toward recession? what is known as a double dip? >> the odds are rising. i say they are uncomfortablely high. i dont think we will experience a double dip. if i had to put odds on it, ...

Circulating whether the nations economy is head back towards recession, what is known as a double dip. >> the odds are rising. would i say they 2001 comfortably high. but i dont think well experience a double dijt. if i had to put odds on it, would i say one in four perhaps as high as one in three. >> reporter: others put it much, much higher. >> the odds are extremely high. they are probably somewhere in 80%, 90%. >> reporter: bob shiller from principle on alsprinceton * sayy high. >> i think t...