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Together, these jolted the economy back to life. The jolt wasn’t permanent, however. The economic patient is now wavering again. This time, despite pleas from Fed Chairman Jerome Powell that  monetary policy has reached its limits, the fiscal part of the cure is not forthcoming. Ah, but “limits” don’t really apply to central bankers. Not the central bank of the world’s largest economy and issuer of the global reserve currency. The Fed has constraints—some practical, some legal—but is highly creative in overcoming both. Powell repeated this quite clearly just last month. ...

45% after the company forecasted 2013 earnings and revenue well above wall street estimates. don't count solar out. the stock hit a new 52-week high as well. ashley: shares of widely-held microsoft among the most actively traded stocks today. why? the company says it is stepping up on pressure on eu anti-trust regulators at that take action against google and mobile technology. "after the bell" starts right now. liz: heard a little whitney houston there. love that. we have larry in the pits of the cme. larry shover. you're on a first-name basis with larry. hello, larry. the pits of t...

Markets start getting very, very serious. they could go up 1% or so over the next two years as they get nervous, if if they don't see the presidential candidates and parties starting to at least talk about cooperating, but in 2013 we'll have to have a plan on the table that will work that shows a glide path to fiscal sustainability. >> the book "end game" the author john mauldin. thank you. >> good to be with you. kicking the oil drum down the road. if there was $1 trillion problem that everybody wants to solve that creates jobs. creates national security and gives cash to americas is it not...

Great for wall street and the wealthy, nots so great for 90% of america on main street where the unemployment market remains in neutral. absolute employment remains at an unacceptable high, and the housing market is utterly inside-out. the worst of it is there's an undefined threat that's still to come, and the bankruptcies we'll be talking about soon will not be of individuals or of companies, but when you let somebody else off the hook by taking their debts as the american government did with the banks? guess who goes bankrupt next? the government. we're breaking it down with the author of "...

scorched-earth spending proposals that counts casualties such as border security, research and food safety. >> our president has failed to lead on this debate. >> i think it's out of control, and needs plan will do anything to significantly alter things. >> well, another day fighting a false budget debate chock-full of false solutions, but lots of political manipulations. republicans hitting democrats for not cutting enough, democrats says rpg are chopping too much. when the fact is both bills have one thing in common. the cuts are a drop in the bucket when it comes to the budget-bus...