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Back into head start. What you get are our National Parks and monuments open again. What you get is the economy not stalling but continuing to grow. What you get are workers continuing to be hired. Thats what you get. Thats what you should be asking for. Take a vote and end this shutdown right now. The president s remarks came after a closed door meeting last night with congressional leaders yielding no results. That meeting lasted for over an hour and was described by republicans as, quote, pol...

The nasdaq jumped 1. 14 , its worth remembering that companies can and do change their stripes. Actually improving the business all of the time. Sometimes the moves are revolutionary and sometimes theyre evolutionary. Today, we heard from a cavalcade of companies and the results are remarkably positive and they made you a ton of money. Why dont we start with the most obvious one, Green Mountain coffee roasters. Which after today should rename itself Green Mountain coke refrigerator. Thats becaus...

This hour. Well talk about his decision and new job. And syrias civil war is in a very dangerous perhaps decisive Tipping Point right now. Can the world prevent Bashar Al Assad from using chemical weapons against his own people . Im wolf blitzer. Youre in the situation room. We begin with president obama taking his battle to extend tax cuts for the middle class into the heart of the middle class suburb today. He visited a family just outside washington, d. C. , using their story to dramatize wha...

Be escalating the civil war. There are new concerns the assad regime is preparing to use chemical weapons. Lets get to our pentagon correspondent barbara starr. Barbara, how does this change the u. S. Militarys syria plan . Are we talking u. S. Troops, boots on the ground . Well, not at this point, clearly, deb. But what we do know is that u. S. Officials tell us that they are updating some of the military options for action against syrias chemical weapons capability, why are they doing this . O...

Operated before us. You write it is between letter writing and conversation was blurred by the custom of dictating outgoing letters to describes and having incoming letters read aloud to them. Indeed, you would have a describe and a messenger bringing them to friends and they were capable of reading and writing. They got more done back then. The reason week we can do social media is because it is fast and cheap to deliver image. And for the romans they had slavery and they were able to have a so...

Jumpers. When you have leaders of parties and people from the administration saying, i think it will be to the advantage of the democrats to go off the cliff, wealthy it will be advantage to the republicans to go off the cliff or the president to go off the cliff, thats like betting your country. Theres stupidity involved in that. This is bigtime stuff. Surprising exactly no one, senator Mitch Mcconnell took to the senate floor yesterday to blast the Administration Strategy as a campaign maneuve...

After all this mess is over, do we really want to compromise john boehner as leader of the house . I dont know. Yes. Maybe. Senator graham raises a fair point. Where is the raucous house caucus in the deal making . Most data points to disarray. After reviewing his options over chinese takeouts and cigarettes, how angry the stock markets get on voting on a bill in the lower chamber. Speaking of which Global Financial leaders warned this weekend of massive disruption the world over should america ...

And well talk about that, whether the markets weary of chair yellen. Also, were expecting perfection. Anyway, when the bell rings in about an hour, thats when the action here might really heat up. At 4 00 p. M. , a new crucial rounds of Bank Stress Test results are due out. Well have that vital report on which banks made the grade and which did not, if any. And the financials have been very strong today, as they were yesterday. 18 of the s p 500. Jpmorgan is up like 6 this week. So expectations,...

A precursor for the rest of the year. Heres the thing. A lot of people will look at us being down. Compare to it 2008 remember 2007 we also were lower on the s p 500 for the first day of the year. But through october of that year it looked great. Its what happened next that raised some eyebrows. We talk about the historical precedence but its just one day. Were not panicking yet. Maybe the dip buyers are still on vacation. For all of 2013 and 2012 the s p 500 was never under water. In other word...

And thats what we saw today when the market plummeted the Federal Reserve says it has to keep buying bonds because the economy is still not Strong Enough to generate enough jobs without Interest Rates staying lower than they might otherwise be. The stock markets retreat and the dow gave up 62 points. The s p dropped 4. 9 , and the nasdaq declined. 55 and can clearly be laid right at the feds feet. Thats because until the fed releases the down beat statement crafted after the monthly meeting the ...