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Fires and rescue an economy in crisis caused only about 12%, a very small fraction of the increase in debt you've seen over this period of time. the vast bulk of the increase in debt is a result of the policy choices made by his predecessor to finance very expensive tax cuts by borrowing to finance two wars by borrowing, finance a big expansion of medicare by borrowing, not cutting other spending or raising taxes. that's the bulk of the contribution. as a broad challenge we face as a country, they are mostly about how to get the economy growing, expanding opportunities for middle-class familie...

Crisis caused only about 12%, a very small fraction of the increase in debt you've seen over this period of time. the vast bulk of the increase in debt is a result of the policy choices made by his predecessor to finance very expensive tax cuts by borrowing to finance two wars by borrowing, finance a big expansion of medicare by borrowing, not cutting other spending or raising taxes. that's the bulk of the contribution. as a broad challenge we face as a country, they are mostly about how to get the economy growing, expanding opportunities for middle-class families. as part of that, over the lo...

The stock market is off to its best start since he was president. mandy drury is here. >> reporter: this past quarter has been a best stock start since 1998 with the dow up over 8%, the s&p 500 up 12% year to date. the techs were really the stars. the nasdaq was up 19% in the first quarter. the best since 1991. why? it's been a combination of things. you've got continued easy money from the fed. you've got improving economic data and even the massive debt problems in europe was somewhat resolved. i say that because that might have been just kicked down the road a little bit. we'll say resolved...

authenticity of this. opposition activists say at least 5 the people were kill add cross syria monday and another 12 were killed this tuesday. more than 50 world leaders gathered in seoul, south korea to discover nuclear weapons casting a shadow on the summit is north korea's plan to launch what it calls a peaceful satellite next month despite pressure, north korean state media says pyongyang will not abandon the launch. i'm monita rajpal. "world business today" starts right now. good morning from cnn london, i'm nina dos santos. >> and good afternoon from cnn hong kong, i'm andr...

Military service, active and retired, they will pay more in terms of pharmacy co-pays, they'll be paying more for brand name drugs by mail, they'll be paying more at retail outlets if they're not buying them at military bases. and the problem is a lot of americans who are serving overseas whose families are not near hill tear bases -- hill tear bases -- military bases. a lot of organizations like the vfw and others are speaking out loudly and saying this is wrong. megyn: well, there's a real question about whether we should be solving our debt problems on the backs of our veterans. and we did ...