FOXNEWS Americas Newsroom August 16, 2012
republicans take the national stage. martha: big number. stuart varney joins me now. host of "varney & company" on the fox business network. stuart, good morning. the weekly jobless claims number, what do you make of that? >> it shows the economy is not getting any weaker. jobless claims are pretty stable but at a very high number. 366,000, that is high number. that means the economy is still weak. we still have 8.3% unemployment. we're only growing win 1/2, 2%, that's it. essentially, martha, these numbers tell us, they confirm that our economy is bouncing along the bottom. that's a...