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Today from "the new york times." in some ways, i mean, i think a larger question best a larger question republicans are having about paul ryan in general. about the fact that now mitt romney is going to be tied to this budget. the problem with staying in washington so long, he has been in washington since 1998, is that he has a paper trail. and as your previous guest -- talking about the stimulus program, they are going to pick over his record. some of the votes hes taken, t.a.r.p., voting for t...

Generation has peaked in spending around the world. they are declining. you have the greatest debt bubble in history and they are fighting an epic battle to stop an inevitable slow down in debt de leveraging. what i am worried about is europe. europe is about to blowup. they had 1.3 trillion massive stimulus program a few months ago and already in trouble again. another 1.6 trillion of what we call under the table loans, short-term loans that german banks and the central banks and the ecb that a...

theyre beginning through the republican speakers now, other republican politicians from wisconsin. you see a big crowd behind me. trust me, it runs out this way and this way as well. this is the wisconsin homecoming. paul ryan said hes been flying into the airport in milwaukee for the 14 years hes been in the united states congress, never has he returned home for a welcome like this. he now will be the republican vice presidential nominee. were in a state, gloria, as you know, theres b...

here. theyre going through the preliminary speakers now. you see a big crowd behind me. trust me, it runs out there way as well and over this way. this is the wisconsin homecoming. paul ryan and mitt romney landed just a short time ago. paul ryan said it was great to be home. he said hes been flying into the airport in milwaukee for the 14 years hes been in the united states congress. never has he returned home for a welcome like this. he now will be the republican vice presidential no...

here. theyre going through the preliminary speakers now. you see a big crowd behind me. trust me, it runs out there way as well and over this way. this is the wisconsin homecoming. paul ryan and mitt romney landed just a short time ago. paul ryan said it was great to be home. he said hes been flying into the airport in milwaukee for the 14 years hes been in the united states congress. never has he returned home for a welcome like this. he now will be the republican vice presidential no...

>> its quite a large crowd. theyre going through the preliminary speakers now. you see a big crowd behind me. trust me, it runs out this way as well and over this way. this is the wisconsin homecoming. paul ryan and mitt romney landed just a short time ago. paul ryan said it was great to be home. he said hes been flying into the airport in milwaukee, never has he returned home for a welcome like this. he will be the republican vice presidential nominee. were in a state as you know, tha...

In america just like china. listen to this. flush >> our competitors are putting people to work building a future. china investors gdp in infrastructure. america is at 2.4%. we can do better. >> we should be like china. >> and they pay their workers a dollars a month. >> lets do the math. if we were to commit 9% of our budget to infrastructure, it would be in excess of $1 trillion. >> how did that work? >> a, we dont have the money. but elizabeth warren is going to play a very significant role i...

Out, and your were on the race for recession right now. and everybody that i follow and we use say were on this track, do you this, were on recession. >> and jonas, the economy is barely crawling, you really cant say its growing right now. but do you think that renewing the tax cuts for everyone at the cost of raising the deficit is the right thing to do? >> first of all, we have end the economy crawling along and dont know how much at this point. we cant afford to extend these to any group. the...

Rare miss, it blames in part the slowing economy in europe. ford, another big company here in the united states, also blaming europe for a weaker than expected quarter. the carmaker joining other american companies including ups, xerox and slashing its profit forecasts for the year. not a good sign. we also have a disturbing report out of the u.k. directly where a reading on the economy came in much weaker than expected. it is a little bit of a theme these days. apparently this reading confirmed...

Hard-hitting ad out today that raises questions about president obamas stimulus program. you saw that in pittsburgh with mitt romney yesterday, very aggressively criticizing obamas views of the economy. and i think, you know, well have -- it will be a sign of the level of anxiety on the part of the romney campaign if they do announce the vice presidential pick this week. that would signal to the rest of us just how damaging this earlier week and last week have been with the focus on being on tac...