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Eastern ukraine some of which i think was observing u.s. leadership in the world. we had china redrawing a map that had been a map that had been around for thousands of years and claiming islands and building runways and until that time those things had not occurred. we've had the whole destabilization of europe where, i think, confidence levels in europe are probably the lowest they've been in our lifetimes. driven by concerns about in many cases what our role is but also the role of russia and what it has been doing in the region, the role of immigrants that are flowing in, the whole challen...

"b" -- you know what i'm going to say but i won't say it -- that you're being out of your place, are you too demanding. it is interesting to see how times have changed a little bit when someone like an elizabeth warren can be confident and confidence and not face the same kinds of attacks that i saw hillary face. >> to be fair, elizabeth warren is in the senate partly because she couldn't get the job she wanted in the obama administration. some of the men there weren't too supportive of her. that's fair to say. this book is important but the problem women face is us, men, are not -- i mean if ...

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So i agree with what steve and ezra said, that you can't just look at the numbers. but when i look at confidence levels of ceos and their mindset, their mindset is not as expansionary as, say, it was a year ago in that regard. >> so what's hampering that? what's making their mindset less expansionary? >> well, first of all, you have tremendous lack of confidence in government. you have the uncertainty of what's the -- you know, you have a negative 5% gdp growth impact with, you know, the taxes coming off and spending coming down. >> are you talking about what happens at the end of the year? >>...

How confident are we about the strength of the recovery in the united states? >> it seems to be moving a lon. business leaders are confident that it will continue to move along. employment is up. they're anticipating future growth and the backlogs with starting to get better. >> let's look at the brick nations. they've done well, kept up blistering paces of growth. although we're seeing those reduce a bit in 2011 towards the end of 201. are we going to see more moderate growth from china? >> confidence levels are stronger. brazil is equally strong, stronger in the fourth quarter than previousl...