Page 9 - 460 Billion News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

Challenge for the president. because the united states alone is not even among russia's top ten trading partners, okay? but when you look, we have $40 billion in exports. we looked at some of these numbers. in contrast, europe does about $460 billion of business with russia. russia is europe's biggest supplier of natural gas. and so when the president goes to our reluctant allies, some of whom include germany and great britain, he has to say, you've got to be in this with us and they say, well, that's easier for you to say than us because it's going to hurt us more. so he has to find some kind...

Him out of the g-8. i'm not even into suspending talks. the same thing with britain. britain in a document released says we're not looking to do anything economically. the problem is if we come down hard we've got $40 billion in trade. if the europeans come down hard they'll get their attention because they have $460 billion in trade. so far it seems like europe is back to the future. it seems we should recognize the seriousness of this. >> in addition to that, brian, forget about europe, how they might act, if the united states were to impose sanctions what would the kremlin do? they have som...

Stocks at the right time, great. but we can't time the market. we don't have the skills to necessarily do that. >> we're at record highs now, steve rattner. obviously we're going to have a drop. we're going to have a direction. is the advice around the table when that happens, just hold tight? >> look, this is an important point because individual investors and sophisticated investors have a terrible time timing the market. timing the market is a stupid way to invest, especially when you're a long way from retirement. your 401(k) people, you're right, they put their money in 2005 through 2007,...

Shear what he said. >> we have a huge economic relationship with mexico. they're number three behind canada and china, about $460 billion a year. so lot of levers we can use here. of that $460 billion, a huge amount is tourism. is it really worth them sort of gaining this venal corrupt image with this violence. do they want o pay the millions and millions, possibly hundreds of millions in lost tourism just so they can do whatever it is that the corrupt local government is doing to this? >> steve: one of the things is this guy is being charged with is he brought into the country of mexico a gun...

Votes from? 51% of independentsers voters are independent? >> he has to win the independents. if the president has a big surge close to election day it will be tough in a state that predominantly independent and where democrats have an edge. they revealed in the debate where scott brown essentially explained what this populist agenda would mean to the average voter she challenged him on jobs bill that scott brown didn't sign on to. brown said. >> it would raise your taxes $460 billion, it was a bipartisan rejection. she responded well, it would be just a fractional tax people making more than ...