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Paid for by spending cuts and tax rises elsewhere . And with a general election imminent, how will the Budget Go Down Beyond Westminster . Im in Newcastle Hearing from local businesses and Community Leaders about what they want from the budget and getting their reaction to what the chancellor announces. Yes, its budget mike day. The day has finally arrived. One of the few remaining set pieces were the government gets the opportunity to set out its agenda before the general election. Whenever that happens. We will talk about speculation on a date later. It will be important to hear how the chan...

That's health in numbers. unitedhealthcare. now to our three big money headlines. sky-high confidence. black thursday. and counting the beans. joining me now, hitha prabhakar a retail and economy analyst. good morning, this brand-new survey shows consumer confidence at its highest since july, 2007. what's that say about the growth of the economy? >> well, alex, economists still say that the economy is growing at a slower rate. but look at these numbers. consumer confidence hits at 84.9. that's up from 82.9 which economists were expecting it to go to. some of the reasons why really has to do ...

And this, when the average top marginal tax rate was 84.9%. now, compare this with the period from 1987 to the year 2010, when the average tax rate was just 36.4%. the economy grew at a far less robust rate of just 2.9%. we keep being told that mr. romney's been rehearsing his zingers. but let's hope that he's not going to use that line from president clinton, it's the economy, stupid, because the easiest response to that is, we know who's stupid when it comes to the economy. thanks so much for watching. thank you to the university of denver for hosting us. and to all of you watching at home. ...

Little bit below pittsburgh. very low foreclosure rates, that's what gets louisville toward the top of that list. houston, texas, this is an area we've been talking about a lot. a lot of texas is actually doing very well. 73.2, the issue there is it has strong industry and energy-related jobs. people are moving to houston and austin and dallas and places like that. so, you're seeing the possibility of housing price indexes. let's take you to the minneapolis/st. paul area. very low unemployment in some of the states around here. that brings it to a score of 84.9, you can see just below pittsbur...