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Buying online. those are some ways to help you save money today and tomorrow. >> its been a solid year for the economy. weve seen the economy growing very strong increase in jobs, all sorts of wonderful good news. consumer confidence is up. is that going to play a big role when we look back this year? >> consumer confidence is at a 17% high. american saving rate is very low and thats seen as an optimistic sign in the economy. in november $462 billion was the household saving rate. it sounds high...

Bellweather, does the government have to subsidize part of that? thats part of the policy mix ultimately as to whether premiums go up and health care prices go up. theres an interesting aspect to this. we as consumers as people get health care where they work, have a history of not paying attention to how much were paying because we dont pay for it. and were employees of a company where we pay a higher deductibles and a lot of companies are moving towards that and thats probably a good thing for...

And now they say k-mart and sears are shutting their doors. >>guest: i think there is a sears and k-mart problem, that is what we are seeing, down 5.2 percent year offer year, the same stores that is the industry metric sears blaming the fact they had trouble selling electronics but the stores are out of date, old fashioned; not spending enough money to keep them up to snuff. so they spend in other places and over all sales could be up 3.8 percent and we are spending $460 billion over the holida...

Just leftovers in the refrigerator many predict todaying be the third busiest shopping dave the year with lots of day after christmas deals out there right now, and retailers hoping a big end of the year rush will rival black friday and cyber monday. with me now is financial consultant and all their of master your debt, jordan, the calendar gave retailer as break because christmas was on a sunday so everyone got off on monday and what do they do when they get off? they go shopping. ex-shopping l...

Occupy wall street encampments about barack obama. >> one of his biggest fans is large shareholder in the "washington post," warren buffett who conducted rundraisers for him on wall street. wall street is pragmatic about who they give money to. rank and file of wall street are people who want to hedge -- a famous wall street word -- giving money to both sides. thats how obama will continue to receive money. >> let me shift topics if i can. there were economic numbers out today. consumer spending...

Occupy wall street encampments about barack obama. >> one of his biggest fans is large shareholder in the "washington post," warren buffett who conducted rundraisers for him on wall street. wall street is pragmatic about who they give money to. rank and file of wall street are people who want to hedge -- a famous wall street word -- giving money to both sides. thats how obama will continue to receive money. >> let me shift topics if i can. there were economic numbers out today. consumer spending...

Their credit card debt. they are doing the right things. people are buying homes they can afford. what were trying to do is force people to step in and start borrowing again like we used to motivate the economy. i think we need to step back and have a little bit of short term pain so we can emerge from this as a stronger nation. >> short term pain isnt pleasant to go through but you have an interesting point. are you saying that all the negative situations we have its good news. saving rate that...

Bigger payrolls. >> a lot of uncertainty out there. with businesses. they are just uncertain about the environment. >> uncertain about tax rates about the impact of the new healthcare law and about the immediate future of the economy. one reason employers are anxious is the consumers arent buying as much after getting burned by the financial crisis. >> the house they own, the stocks that they own declined in value very, very sharply, that makes them cautious. they have to somehow replace that lo...

Bigger payrolls. >> a lot of uncertainty out there. with businesses. they are just uncertain about the environment. >> uncertain about tax rates about the impact of the new healthcare law and about the immediate future of the economy. one reason employers are anxious is the consumers arent buying as much after getting burned by the financial crisis. >> the house they own, the stocks that they own declined in value very, very sharply, that makes them cautious. they have to somehow replace that lo...