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Dont see how the democrats lose on that one. i see how the republicans lose big and big-time. >> rob, i mean, you mentioned that the president has some rench, dut doesnt he also have a little responsibility here? i think the complaint has been that hes sort of been a little too happy to let congress duke this out and hasnt really been a leader on this issue. does he have to come to the table in addition to democrats and republicans and bring some leadership to this issue as well? >> yes, he does...

>> rob, you talk about geithner scoring high. geithners made it clear hes leaving when this term is over, whatever happens to obama. >> treasury secretary. >> lets seau bomb ma is re-elected. one thing that strikes me is the criticism from the left is he had too many people like geithner on the administration. too many people all over the crisis that he inherited. not a different approach to how to fix the economy. it seems to me with geithner leaving you have a fundamental choice if obama is re...

The cardinals. can we dip into that game for a minute, brian? no? okay. >> where am i? >> calm down. >> whats happening right now? i dont understand. >> from real baseball to a brand new fantasy league for wonks. reuters breaking views is putting down a page where you can assemble an economic team you can do one for obama and the other guy, romney. we have five categories, budgeting, finance, job creation, legislation and international. i put together a dream team for obama and another one for t...

>> a bad date. >> yeah, but -- >> dont tell that to a lot of people who are married and that the date they are having. >> very common. >> turns out i think the biggest customer from my book i think are spouses. they are the ones who are realizing that the detrimental effect and want their spouses to turn off and realize they could turn off and be bet are o off. >> so you say spouses are the ones most aggressively -- >> upset about and recognizing the benefit if their spouse turned off. >> thus i...

An alternative. lay it on us doctor. >> i hope we recognize this tendency to be always on. rob. >> and dylan. not fair to rob. >> and dylan. an almost everybody else. it is destructive for us, for our lives and most surprising, it is destructive for organizations. >> let us say we have come to terms with that some version of your narrative, which is doing this is bad. >> yes. >> and still when it comes down to it, when left alone in dark of night with an iphone, you cant separate it. youre not g...

And come up with a client management strategy so that something somewhere is always on for the client even if everybody is not always on. now youre playing football. >> yes. because it is not the client who usually calls. it is all of the interaccess. >> -- you have anxiety about the client on the box but now youre on the box and you are on twit perp client is out playing golf or god knows, they dont even care about you. jonathan, what do you think? >> leslie, in terms of robs question about the...

The habit. her experiment to give each member of the team a predictable night, mondays, tuesday, wednesday, you got it. to unplug, manned story unplug and free up more personal time but made those who practice this technique more efficient and productive in the office. our specialist today and potentially a personal savior for everybody involved in this conversation right now. leslie, perlot, professor at harvard business school. she has plenty of credential. author of "sleeping with your smart ...

Republican can break through and bring about the ideas that people say they want to solve the countrys problems. >> yeah. it sim possible to answer the questions but i will ask you anyway imogen and rob. when you look at the inability for something like americans, like spending $35 million, lots of marketing, all the rest of it, to secure a candidate in their parameters or fine parameters, how much of that is a function of the lack of an appetite for these particular candidates. how much is a fu...

And jonathan, i never understood, i still dont understand politically why the revenue collapse that really exposed how expensive our country is to run is never even part of the debate. >> well, because the republicans dont want it to be. >> what about the democrats? >> well, i mean, the democrats will talk about it. but there is something else you have it add on top of the revenue collapse. and thats costs that were born by the country that people didnt pay attention to. hunk of that, sh tax cut...

Solve our structural fiscal imbalance. >> the mega panel with their popcorn ready. rob cox, im told, is wearing a stanley cup beard. i didnt realize that facial hair and hockey had such an association, robert. a quick survey of the panel, does anybody on the panel think were going to end up in a situation anything like what we saw last year, starting with you, rob? >> yes, we will. a bit worse because we are going to be going into it probably around the end of the year. we are going to have a la...