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>> this is so interesting. the focus of the latest piece from "the new york times" the upshot is titled "from stocks to farmland all boominging or bubbling." it says nearly everasset class is expensive. stocks and bonds emerging markets and advanced economies and urban office hours and iowa farmland you name it and trading at prices high by historical standards relative to fundamentals. the inverse of that is low returns for investors. but frustrating as the situation can be for investors hoping...

solutions, many of them, lie with congress. but there are causes and there are many of them. a simple answer would be the cleanest, the most convenient, out of control deficits or stimulus. its barack obama or george w. bush, but its not that simple, not that satisfying. one cause however does stand out amongst many. cheap and ample credit. for years the ability of almost every working american to access more credit than they should have been able to, masked the underlying fact that lo...

solutions and right now, those solutions, many of them, lie with congress. but there are causes and there are many of them. a simple answer would be the cleanest, the most convenient, out of control deficits or stimulus. its barack obama or george w. bush, but its not that simple, not that satisfying. one cause however does stand out amongst many. cheap and ample credit. for years the ability of almost every working american to access more credit than they should have been able to, mas...

before. at last slow down in that trend. private sector is carrying things here, no question. but the private sector slowing down a bit too, ali. >> christine, something that you and i study very carefully, this is a consumer-driven economy, so we study retail sales. the retail sales for the last month came out this week, and they were exceptionally strong. much stronger than economists were expecting. so why did we see losses in retail jobs? >> its so interesting, because you saw 33,8...

that actually represents a slowdown in hiring and leaves us wondering why. are there enough jobs out there to sustain our fragile recovery? christine romans, the host of your bottom line, has been studying the numbers. break it down for you. >> i put it on a chart an graphic to show you the jobs report, ali. you make a good mount. 120,000 jobs created is a big slowdown from the pace weve seen over the last few months. 8.2% unemployment is a drop but not making people happy. you had peo...