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A score of 90 on the conference board's index means the economy is healthy. last time we saw that number was 2007 before the start of the financial crisis. over the last two months we've seen steady declines. november's report showed a score of 71.5 and 65.1 in december. that is lowest number we've seen since august. joining us now for more on this is jonathan hunt, portfolio manager for capitalist pig hedge fund. contributor to for fox news channel, good to see you. >> happy new year. >> consumers have no faith in congress, guys get your act together. if there is a deal tomorrow, how do you t...

Index score of 71.5 and just 65.1 in december. that's the lowest number we have seen since august. matt mccall is the president of penn financial group. he jones us now live. how serious is this? >> it is extremely serious, gregg. we're seeing numbers backdating going back to november. what we haven't seen yet, we won't see until january the effect of the uncertainty of fiscal cliff and potential of falling off the fiscal cliff will have on the economy and have on consumers and potentially lead us back into as you mentioned what a lot of economists believe, another recession. gregg: what happe...

Let's call it $140, on themselves this holiday season. this trend is even more pronounced among young people, say between 18 and 24 years old. that's about 71.5% of those in that age group planning to buy gifts for themselves. there's a whole pile of social commentary we could get into on that, but not for today's topic. >> mandy drury, thank you. >> thank you. whatever happens in the race for president, hillary clinton is leaving her job as secretary of state in january. she's been on the road 365 days. she has logged 867,196 miles. at least that's the number quoted in the new article in "m...

As whites, after measuring a variety of factors. this morning, marc morik morar . >> it is time to declare war on unemployment and never give up and never give until this war on unemployment is won. washington, are you listening? congssional house majority, do you hear us? the state of black america and the state of urban america in the 21st century is indeed the state of the nation. >> marc morial now joins us live from howard university. mr. mayor, good to see you. thanks so much for joining us. >> hi, andrea. >> we're so pleased to have you, but the news is not good. we're talking about 71....

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