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Profits and worker wages over the past couple of years. that top line that keeps going up and up and even after it is interrupted quickly goes up and up again, those are corporate profits. they are doing great. the bottom line that doesnt go up and still has not gotten back on track, those are wages. heres another. this graph shows payroll growth in 2011. the blue lines are public sector jobs. red lines are private sector jobs. every month this year, we added private sector jobs. we added 1.5 mi...

6% and that could be better and not a ton. job growth and positive and low levels. the trend is his friend. the model suggest that thats more important. right? >> how do you clear up a mystery in the first graph. how can businesses be doing so well? >> because its very, very simple. the businesses are exclusively and solely those that can sell into economies that are expanding and e nerming abroad. aging economies and not europe and not this one. china posts growth rates. if you are one of the m...

>> im ezra kline for martin bashir. we will raise a glass to toast and look ahead to 2012. the best and worst for the campaign trail. the economy and more. when i said raise a glass, i meant show you a graph. cheers to that. >> we will raise a graph for you. giving a charity is welcomed all year, but there is an added incentive to get donations in before the new year. tax breaks. simply put. how do you ensure you are making the most of your charitable dollars? we are joined by our media relation...

Thing or mineral or vegetable or fruit less popular is fidel castro. there is always next year. why is congress so unpopular? this next graph will help explain it. this is from the official senate website. if you judge it by the number of bills passed, this congress is the least productive since we began keeping records. less productive even than the 1947-1948 do nothing congress that harry truman ran against. list the less than do nothing congress. not as if there is nothing for them to do righ...

Republicans had a simple explanation for continuing economic doll drums. they are obamas fault. how can you have a private sector recovery without a president who understands and respects the private sector? >> this president doesnt know how the economy works. i believe to create jobs it helps to have created jobs. >> the president is a student of saul o lynn ski. he represents a hard left radicalism opposed to free enterprise and capitalism and everything that made america great. >> there is on...

People succeeded in bringing newt down harsh attack ads like these. look at this ad. >> has more baggage. gingrich cashed in. as speaker, he even supported taxpayer funding of some abortions. he supports amnesty for illegal immigrants and teamed with nancy pelosi and al gore on global warming. gingrich was fined $300,000 by a republican congress for ethics violation. the gingrich record, 30 years in washington flip flopping on issues. >> now, perry, when you come and look at the graph, december ...

The headline of the year, i would have laughed. oh, what fun we would have had. when we were writing this segment, we repeatedly reminded ourselves to mention bin laden and the official end of the war in iraq. these are very, very big deals. for barack obama in 2011, they are not the headline. the truth is that 2011 was about the economy. for obama it was a mixed year. politically the obama administration hoped to come to a big deal with republicans. they would show the president is able to reac...

Short of remarkable. people are making up their minds on the spot. >> steve: true. but there was a graph in the washington post showing what the gop nominating process looks like and its like this. if you go to the park and gets on the roller coaster, thats what it looks like right now. >> alisyn: this year it seems with the 26% of registered republicans, who have only made up their minds, it leaves almost 75% or more of folks who made up their minds bump theres one candidate, though, in iowa wh...

Big news certainly for the ron paul campaign. this is one of msnbc contributor ezra kleins graphs of the year of 2011. he did graphs of the year to give you a snap shot of where things are in american politics and the american economy. this is one of them. he said it helps explain what the year has been like. this is a graph of the standings for the republican nominating process among iowa residents polled over the course of this year. this is the iowa republican polling this year. when you look...

This is one of msnbc contributor ezra kleins graphs of the year of 2011. he did graphs of the year to give you a snap shot of where things are in american politics and the american economy. this is one of them. he said it helps explain what the year has been like. this is a graph of the standings for the republican nominating process among iowa residents polled over the course of this year. this is the iowa republican polling this year. when you look at that graph, what does that graph say to yo...