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Even further. i spoke to a goldman sachs analyst today, he expects the yen to hit the 90 to a dollar mark very soon. >> exporters would love that. oil and gold prices have been hitting record prices as well. what do the milestones look like for those commodities? >> over the past few month, both brentz and gold have reacted not just to the japan crisis but ongoing mideast unrest. to oil right here. on january 31st, let's see if we can bring that up there, brent passed that psychological $100 mark and that was the first time we saw that since october 2008. that's the anti-government protests ro...

9.0 magnitude quake. the disaster hit the country with 15 minutes left in the trading day. markets didn't have much time to react that day. we head on over to march 14 and that is the first full trading day after the crisis. the markets responded, well, with the yen posting gains, strengthening to post-world war ii record, butting pass 79.75 mark. let's keep on going here. i'll take these out for you. you can see the yen strengthening down there. the g7 realized this and made a currency intervention on march 18. that's estimated to be about $6.5 billion. in reaction, the yen weakened to where ...

Talking about. >> it reminds me of my four-year-old who would say repeal the stinky health care law. do we need the adjective in there. just health care law. >> and it's the repeal job killing health care law act. which is a mouthful well before what happened in tucson. >> and john boehner appeared to not listen to this congresswoman, but he he did change his tone. instead of using job killing as his talk, used job destroying when he he talked about what this health care bill is doing. so, perhaps he gives you that half point, alisyn. and here is what else john boehner had to say about what is...

Surveyed this. half the people we surveyed said that there is a price for embarrassment and they are actually willing to pay that $35 or $40 fee so that the bank or credit union will cover their essentially bad check as swiped with a debit card. really the question is, are you a diligent enough manager of your checking account so that know you're not going to bounce around at the zero dollar mark. if you are, then you don't need the protection. if you don't want to get embarrassed in front of friends or at the movie theater, then you need the protection. it is very simple. >> even sometimes i ...

Fascinating article about just who it is that seems to be doing the strategic defaulting. from the data we have it appears that affluent homeowners are the ones most likely to pursue this strategy. quote, more than one in seven homeowners with loans in excess of a million dollars are seriously delinquent according to data compiled to the "new york times" by the real estate analytics firm core logic. about 1 in 12 mortgages blow the million dollar mark is delinquent. okay. at the same time that rich people are making use of the impeccable economic logic of strategic default the federal governme...