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Flying over western canada, our team cannot help but think about being young again. when we first received the assignment to ignite a consumer movement in alaska, we pulled out a map." he says they studied up on the highways and the state capital and then headed up there and landed in alaska and they set up this shoot with big cameras and a pristine looking alaskan lake as a backdrop. we got these photos from their facebook page, where the chicago marketing team documented their attempt to "ignite a consumer movement in alaska." and here's how that shoot came out. >> there's so much to learn a...

Conservatives, another major bloc at this conference. but the real breakout stars -- as we're talking, sarah palin is about to take the stage -- the real breakout star will be ben carson, the new face of the consumer movement. he is a neurosurgeon at johns hopkins. he just told us about an hour ago that he is going to leave his practice, and he left it open whether he would run for the white house. also ted cruz in a few hours, cho really has become the face of the conservative movement within the united states senate. he's a freshman from texas. fred? >> mark preston, thanks so much. we'll ta...

Of globalization and technology, because of market forces, impersonal forces. when i dug into this and started to look back, what i found out what really happened, back when you were working for tip o'neill as speaker of the house, that was when there was a power shift. louis powell, who was a corporate attorney named to the supreme court by richard nixon, actually wrote a memo and said, we're getting killed. business is getting killed politically by the environmental movement, by the labor movement, by the women's movement, by the consumer movement, ralph nader and those guys. he said, busine...

Business trade. they stuffed the consumer movement. they got deregulation. they got tax cuts, all kinds of things. so the power shift tilted the policy towards business, towards the wealthy. that started in the late '70s literally when you and i were there. at the same time, you had what i call wedge economics in the economy. used to be that the prosperity, the growth of american productivity was shared. middle class had its share along with the owners, along with the shareholders. the productivity of the american workforce doubled from 1945 to 1975. >> i know a lot about this. there's gucci g...

Lobbying offices in washington. several years later, there were 2,400, 50,000 people working for business trade. they stuffed the consumer movement. they got deregulation. they got tax cuts, all kinds of things. so the power shift tilted the policy towards business, towards the wealthy. that started in the late '70s literally when you and i were there. at the same time, you had what i call wedge economics in the economy. used to be that the prosperity, the growth of american productivity was shared. middle class had its share along with the owners, along with the shareholders. the productivity...