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This is what we have or make and this is what we owe. over the same period of time, gdp up 34%. over the same period of time, the debt increased 130%. this is ten years, not just the obama years but the interest on the debt, 450 $450 billion. interest on the debt. here's a fun fact. apple has $246 billion in cash on hand in their bank account. microsoft has $123 billion. google has $86 billion. do you know what we have as of today in the united states government? $34 billion. we have an eighth of what apple has. >> dana: which number do you want to increase or decrease? >> eric: you want growt...

It's all been awesome and what supercharged these rallies is the money pouring into stocks. morning star estimates 172 billion with a b has cascaded into stock funds for the first ten months of the year. the most since 2000. where do we go from here? i can't tell you that. i can tell you for sure where we have been and it's been amazing. a week to go until black friday. a warning that black friday for too many people is red friday. charging for gifts for themselves and others but they are not able to pay it off by january. how much are we charging? during november and december of last year, ...

We talk about a lot of serious things here in business but how does this all factor in? the sale of beer among young americans? because we are seeing the unemployment rate among young men is significantly higher than the average. >> sure, and then living at hope, they don't have the money that they would have if they were out in their own place and had a job. it's an important story because beer is not just a little incidental. it's a $246 billion industry. >> wait, say that again. >> $246 billion. almost a quarter of a trillion dollars a year. it employs 2 million people at 2,800 breweries. t...

Let's just talk about health care. if you talk about health care costs you talk about tort reform. we have hundreds of doctors practicing defensive medicine. they are ordering tons of unnecessary tests because they are scared of being sued. it is red includes. >> michelle makes a good point that some is in health care. they say to small businesses about $185 billion tort reliability in 2010 and 246 billion if you take all of the business. tort reform is bipartisan, you would agree with this, would you not? >> to an extent that corporations do have to be responsible. this is not a get out of ja...

Funding. >> north dakota and alaska are the on two states funding at the level recommended about it cdc. >> reporter: u.s. cigarette manufacturers agreed to pay $246 billion over 25 years to compensate states for public health costs related to tobacco use. but the agreement doesn't regulate how the states spend the money. >> though there are know agreement on tobacco control. the states that have done that have gotten great benefits. they have seen tobacco use falling and they have seen costs related to tobacco fall as well. >> many lawmakers see the benefits as long-term investments. if you a...