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Hasnt changed. were $16 trillion in debt right now. people arent talking about that. its scary. so the debt factor is really no indication as to whats happening in the markets so theres this huge discrepancy so i think were headed toward some very serious rough waters. >> how is wall street getting it wrong right now? >> i dont know. i think thats really scary. theres a lot of optimistic analysts that hope things will catch up but at the end of the day i think that the balloon is going to bust. ...

Equipment, new equipment, might be beneficial to more effectively search in deep water? >> well, carol, youre sort of talking about the end result, if you like. where i would really like to go back to recorroborate and reanalyze the macrolevel data that we have from inmarsat, for example. or going back to the malaysians and really trying to get the malaysians to be open and honest about what information they have from when the aircraft last disappeared off radar in the south china sea all the wa...

Concern isnt that this causes people to go, im going to vote for the republicans who clearly ha are clean and scandal free. but rather that it makes people go man, i cant believe in anybody. this young kid gets elected in charlotte to be the mayor and this young man who is a gun control advocate. it turns people away all together. >> it chips away democracy. we dont trust anybody and it is a real problem. >> people have the scandals but on a macro level, democrats, who ever it is need to be camp...

Especially the payroll number will be revised up, todays report actually comes at a very critical time of course for this debate over whether we should extend unemployment insurance benefits for the long-term unemployed. a number in the report that i havent heard anyone talk about yet today, 2.5% of the labor force is long-term unemployed. theyve been out of work for at least six months. historically when weve had that many long-term unemployed people, congress has extended those benefits. its b...

Then a day or two later as people were talking about this, i heard some of them saying, why are we all so angry here? so, i brought in psychologist wendy walsh, and i went through a couple of stories from the past few weeks, past few months, and i asked her, why are we all so angry? >> theres a lot of tension in america right now. i think americans are hurting at the macrolevel, you know, more and more concentration of wealth is in a tinier portion of america. the average annual wage of people h...

Embarrassing. whether people should be able to hold those views and also be active in mainstream conservative politics and mainstream republican party politics. at the macro level, though, beyond those kind of staffing decisions, theres also the larger strategic question of what the republican party wants to be. could the, should the republican party be just the party of aggrieved white people? even to the extent that it may stray occasionally into confederate territory, in order to do that, do ...

Standards because when their innovators come up with valuable intellectual property, they wont want it stolen either. it was interesting to hear the chinese president say the u.s. has overhyped the issue ahead of the summit because china isnt as great a threat on this issue as weve all made it out to be. he did acknowledge that he feels we do need to come to some agreements on this as well and well be open to working on them going forward. were still waiting to hear what kind of details they hav...

I think if you look at it on a macro level, how you figure out who gets paid and how much they get paid, its a huge challenge. >>brian: lets move on to talk about whats happening at rutgers. they fired their coach. youll see this video again. did they have a choice, any choice but to fire him? >> no, i dont think so. in hindsight and of course that is always 20-20, if the school decided to hit this head on and say were aware our basketball coach was functioning in a way that is not acceptable by...

How, why? well, actually, it was about money and assets. you see, a vast majority of these couples are getting divorced so they can avoid a new chinese tax. beijing recently decided to impose a 20% capital gains fee on sales of second homes. so, the theory goes, if you have two homes and you get divorced, you can register each home under separate names. then, if you sell one of those homes, you escape the new tax and then, i guess, you can get remarried. the bizarre exploitation of this loophole...

So, the theory goes, if you have two homes and you get divorced, you can register each home under separate names. then, if you sell one of those homes, you escape the new tax and then, i guess, you can get remared. the bizarre exploitation of this loophole tells a larger story. at an individual level, it shows the importance of housing as an investment in china. but at the macro level, the story shows how beijings new leaders are are struggling is to deal with what some are calling a property bu...