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America to fiscally sustainable path. how much would some of the most talked about solutions save? shutting down the post office on saturday would help save about $3 billion. changing medicare eligibility from 65 to 67 would bring back $6 billion. plan proposed by senator tom coburn that cuts non-semidefense programs, that would save $7 billion. capping deduction at $25,000 would keep $68 billion safe. propose additional taxes on the top 2% of income earners well, that would bring in $82 billion. so hypothetically if all of the proposed solutions two be enacted we would spend $166 billion less...

Shares of insurance giant a.zig today. the company nearly collapsed in 2008 after making risky financial bet. the treasury and the federal reserve came to the rescue, taking it over and backing it with $182 billion. avenue self-ing off the last shares treasury reported $5 billion profit on the bail-out. the federal reserve made $17.7 billion. but the fed won't be parking its cash. it's holding a two-day policy meeting and it is expected to announce tomorrow it will continue to keep interest rates low. but it wants to get them especially lower. for mortgages, car loan and business loan. it is e...

Time for business before the bell with brian shactman. >> beautiful out there today. >> what is the word on wall street? what are we looking? >> things are looking pretty good. futures are up about 50. two-day fed meeting starts today. funny with the fiscal cliff, no one is talking about it. expecting $55 million more in quantitative easing to be announced and also fiscal cliff, i would say, just with a little bit of positive vibe. i don't want to get into too much because i think everyone is tired of discourse at this point and little bit of optimism maybe on wall street and i also want to po...

Debt, they are now moving as we expected they would years ago, they are now moving aggressively to invest direct he. rather than simply invest in the stock market or the debt market, they are looking for direct opportunities into which they can invest that money. they found it, as you mentioned, in a battery company, a123. you know, we put in a couple of hundred million -- i say we put in, mr. obama put in. a couple of hundred million dollars of our money, now they're buying that company on the cheap because of of the r&d money that was invested by the federal government. they are buying up ho...

And he won an election. i don't see it that way. he wants to get what he wants to get. the republicans have men of negotiating strength. maybe they even have the upper hand. i've been hearing everyone says the president has the upper hand. i think maybe the republicans in a certain way do because they have the debt ceiling coming up. they should use that and they should use it very strongly. >> steve: i'm sure there is going to be some wheeling and dealing. >> but i'd use it now and get this thing done. not just we'll delay for another month two months. i'd get it done. use it now. use all you...