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Now? christine romans, ali velshi show you how to measure your tolerance for risk. >> a series of records in stocks, should i buy stocks here? is this a time to get in or out? we say those are wrong questions. what is your risk tolerance. >> first step in investing. there's an easy way to do this. cnnmoney.com, risk test. we're not going to take you through 15 questions. a representative sample of three questions which help people determine how much risk you're prepared to take in i'll hypothetically answer them. >> the main one. what is proimary financial goal? preserve wealth, man for retire...

>> i would guess there's great pluses and minuses. we didn't study that in this particular questionnaire. we had over 200 questions. by the way, it was a national representative sample. we didn't sample the match.com population but based on the u.s. national census. we got the right numbers. gay, straights, every rural, suburban, age group, et cetera. when you marry somebody you have complications from a different background. like traditional holidays and so people do still naturally tend to be drawn to somebody from their same ethnic background but they don't say it's a must have. they don't ...

The decisions happen quickly. a typical c eo makes decisions really kind of on a moment's notice. it is not the same sand in the gears way that washington works or a state capital works and, in fact, when romney was govern nor of massachusetts, he didn't like dealing with the legislature. he was not much of a pol in the sense of working the room or getting to know people or dealing with people in the way that we think of, you know, a master politician like lbj or bill clinton. >> i'm not sure, though, we have a large representative sample of really successful business people who gone in to pol...

Politics. it has been like that since the bombshell robert spitzer study mainstreamed this kind of thinking back in 2001. it has been that way for 11 years now. it has been that way for 11 years, until last week when all of a sudden it stopped being like that. because last week dr. robert spitzer made it known that he would please like to take that study back from 2001. he would like to retract it. it does not mean what people think it means and he wishes it would not have published. last week the american prospect magazine published a remarkable piece of reporting, including the explosive rev...

Heart of what they do in politics. it has been like that since the bombshell robert spitzer study mainstreamed this kind of thinking back in 2001. it has been that way for 11 years now. it has been that way for 11 years, until last week when all of a sudden it stopped being like that. because last week dr. robert spitzer made it known that he would please like to take that study back from 2001. he would like to retract it. it does not mean what people think it means and he wishes it would not have published. last week the american prospect magazine published a remarkable piece of reporting, in...