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Save from the economic down turn. the closing of one of america's phoeufts for rick boss: y'know, geico opened its doors back in 1936 and now we're insuring over 18 million drivers. gecko: quite impressive, yeah. boss: come a long way, that's for sure. and so have you since you started working here way back when. gecko: ah, i still have nightmares.

Derivatives. why am i telling you this? reckless trading in derivatives helped a down turn in the u.s. housing market into a full blown catastrophe from which we are still trying to recover. aig, bear stearns, you will find derivatives at their core. on the other hand, farmers, manufacturing, innovators of all sorts have relied on derivatives for centuries not to exaggerate their profits but to hedge or to mitigate their risk. now comes the senate agriculture committee with a bill from its democratic chairwoman blanche lincoln of arkansas that would outlaw derivative trades by banks. the measu...

Live in atlanta at a chain restaurant. hey, jonathan. >> hey. the owner of this restaurant in a previous life was in the accounting industry. then he decided to try something new. we're finding out folks lime him are in good company. restaurant franchises have a taste for expansion despite the economic down turn. the trend is especially hot in atlanta. >> i believe it's a hot bed for franchising because it's not a pedestrian city, because it is a commuter city, people are in their cars, they're going home on the way to work, they understand established brands, which franchising is all about. >...

Produced. coming out of the war, by and large, an enormous long wave of prosperity. young people going to college in the '60s, they said they had a lot of money. gasoline cost 25 cents a gallon. you could get along on 50, 60 bucks a week and they began to catch that wave of high wages and then paid a price for that in terms of housing. >> cheap credit, easy credit, no savings programs of any kind. and they pushed it and push itted and pushed it until they went off the edge on the economic down turn. boomers on wall street collecting the fees, passing along the derivatives. consumers out there,...