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By banking friends until it emerged as a giant, scary beast that no one could pay for. sound familiar? 57 billion of the rescue package approved today. you see, it's in the interest of the bankers and politicians to hide this and then give you things until they can't hide it anymore and then they just print money. add to that the federal reserve's promise to provide loans overseas and ben bernanke's new decision to let foreign banks post collateral. they like to call it collateral. in return for printed cash. well, you would think we have buckets of money to hand out. as if buying trash bags f...

Their price and raising the price on another brand in may. they are passing higher costs stemming from the freeze that hurt florida's orange crop this winter. we turn to the richest person in the world, for the first time it's someone not in the united states that tops "forbes" rich list. michelle caruso-cabrera joins us. quite interesting. >> his name is carlos slim worth $53.5 billion. he's a mexican telecom magnet and edges out bill gates by a half million dollars who turned out to be $53 billion. making third on the list, warren buffett, $57 billion as well. carlos slim's holding in tele...

Become an entrenched problem because the state budget has issues. expected to have a $17 billion shortfall over the two-year period next year. while he complained mightily about washington wasteful spending, worth noting 35 to 40% of the texas budget is actually federal aid. $57 billion. that is part of what kay bailey hutchinson uses to beat up on perry. she's a three-term incumbent from the senate, six there and two more left on her term is getting her hat handed to her being out of touch with electorate and a big government spender waster. she has a voting record and perry used it to pound ...

Already $272 billion spent. you are looking here, $257 billion left to go to other projects. are there places where lawmakers feel they will get more political bang for that buck? >> reporter: yeah. certainly. that's one reason you are trying to hear policy being merged with these announcements. you have -- lot of clean energy jobs that are being created with stimulus funds. everybody is for the education. education of this country being improved. they talk about teachers, firefighters, public safety. they are trying to merge the priorities. but it is really about making sure that they spend t...

Market value over the last decade here. they had a peak market cap of $557 billion. recent market cap, $132 billion. obviously, when that tech boom burst, that bubble burst, it really affected them. their stock never recovered although they still remain a top company there. general electric, they lost $423 billion during the last decade. obviously, a lot of pain there. their peak market cap was $601 billion. let's go to intel. they lost $400 billion over the last decade. again, you'll see a lot of these companies, the biggest time for their market cap, when it was at its highest, was august of...