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Looking for a job. wall street is doing great. been juiced up by the fed stimulus. middle-class american, average families, missing $12,000 from their wages today as the result of this president's failed the playing a key role in that. >> let me ask you this question, congressman, is it unreasonable to expect the president who will negotiate with the mullahs of iran to negotiate with republicans on the verge of a debt ceiling being reached, on verge of government being shut down or at least partial shutdown. this is the first president who has shirked his responsibility for sitting down and le...

401(k)? how are people to process this when they have money in the stock market? >> you have to remember that it's been a rough couple of weeks for investors. certainly understandable that after a four-year bull market run, we're seeing is the sudden drop in the market. you have to keep in mind, year to date, the dow is still up 12%. the overall market is still up 12%. this is not a time to panic. if you are a long-term investor, you shouldn't be making big changes. in fact, there might be buying opportunities for you here in the market. >> buying opportunities where, for example? >> well, you...

Shactman. brian, welcome and congratulations on your maiden voyage. >> >> yeah, i'm a little nervous with such esteemed colleagues. >> you have a ticker with live updates. >> we're watching the markets. it's not a good sign. the dow is in the premarket up 100 points after losing 350 and 200 the day before. now it's down again. that is not a good sign in terms of the health of the market. but a couple things i want to point out. one, this is a professional trader's market. the average person left in '09, never came back. passively invest indeed their 401(k). but have an expiration on the fed st...

A senate panel accusing some major check companies of avoiding the tax man. joining us now is lauren simonetti. >> they say they used offshore accounts to avoid paying taxes on billions of dollars. the committee says microsoft moved 21 billion offshore from 2009 to 2011 and saved 4 and a half billion in taxes it would have owed to uncle sam. the panel says hp has 90 percent of the cash outside of the united states and under tax laws foreign profits are taxed when they come back to the u.s. >> 30 year mortgage rates have fallen to a record of 3.49. this is all thanks to the fed stimulus, right?

good morning. it is friday, august 26th. welcome to "american morning." it's all about the hurricane today. >> i wish i could say happy friday, happy friday for those not living along the northeast coast. >> and whom it hasn't reached yet. >> exactly. let's talk about hurricane irene. now said to be a massive and powerful category 2 storm sitting just off the east coast. 50 million people could feel its force by this weekend. new hurricane warnings are now up, they stretch from north carolina to new jersey. states of emergency have been declared as far north as new england. >> irene ...