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We took a look at the drop in the unemployment rate in these ten states in comparison to the national rate, which has dropped 2.7%, from 9.4 to 6.7 in the past three years. so how are we doing on a state level, in which governors get to basically run on success? the governors in the red states of florida, south carolina, michigan and georgia, and the blue state of colorado, all saw their unemployment rate drop at a faster rate than the national average. you can see that television ad write itself for those five incumbents. then you have these govern owes, pennsylvania, wisconsin, maine, connec...

So, you know, whenou look forward, the employment situation does look better in 2014. health care's also an industry that's going to do quite well. so one could expect that jobs will be created. now there's a quirk in the unemployment statistics, if some of those missing workers as they're called come back into the workforce, it could push the unemployment rate up a little bit even though jobs are being created, possibly even at a faster clip next year than that. that will be kind of a misleading indicator when it comes to what's going on in the employment market. the unemployment right raitt ...

Won't, because a lot of those people that left the labor force will start to come back as conditions improve. you know, we could have the unemployment rate go from 7% to 7.3% and have a dramatically better job market simply because we're creating 250,000 to 300,000 a month instead of 150 to 200 and folks are coming back because things are getting better. the unemployment ralt isn't necessarily the right number to focus on. more importantly will be the percentage of adults employed and i expect to see that improve. >> all right. ron, let's move to you on this. since we're talking about jobs, we...

>> they ser have aed 800 people. 42% will be spending less over the holiday season, about 40% about the same. and 15% will be spending more. they also very viewed high network people, people over the net worth of over $100,000. those people will be spending around $300 less. and that whole total is around $681. here's the contradictory aspect. pay pal had a survey and they said their mobile payments up 121% over the holiday weekend for 2013. it's a little odd. we will is have toe see what's happening. but right now this survey is saying people will spend 9.4% less over the holiday. >> we'll re...

When the oil production in iraq was disrupted, and more importantly in libya, how saudi arabia raised its production from around 9.3, 9.4 to almost 10 million barrels. when libya's production came back into the game it automatically reduced its production. saudi arabia is playing a very stabilizing role in oil production. exactly as it's playing a political stabilizing role also in the arena. >> how dangerous is iran in terms of saudi arabia's future? >> the danger of iran goes beyond saudi arabia and middle eastern region. for iran to have nuclear weapons, something is very serious game. that...