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Obamacare would help or hurt their budget and wondering when the sluggish economy in the beginning of the year would finally turn around. what does 2014 have in store? joining me now is our biz panel. kate rogers of fox business. simon constable, columnist at "the wall street journal." ari zoldan, ceo of quantum networks. let me start with you, ari p p you can come at this from a small business perspective. what were the challenges of 2013? >> i think first it was banks and lending. i found out -- i found out in the beginning of the year it was really tough for banks to be able to open up thei...

Stolen in the old fashioned swipe machines at the stores? simon, let me start with you on this. i know in europe, frankly all the rest of the world, right, has a digital kind of a system? what's the difference? >> it has a chip. basically, it sends an authorization code, a different one for every transaction. it's encrypted. it sort of rotates it so you can't just take that and use it again once that encryption, that code is -- >> why don't we have it here? >> well, i think it's because the banks have no incentive to deal with this. there's relatively few banks. we've got less and less banks. ...

Communities they love. >> congressman, please keep us posted if you do decide to put that bill forthright. thank you so much, congressman lou barletta. one of the biggest obstacles to a budget deal in washington is a possible extension of jobless benefits. many republicans oppose it. but president obama and other democrats say extending the benefits is good for not just those struggling families, but for the overall economy. listen to this. >> i do support unemployment benefits for the 26 weeks that they're paid for. if you extend it beyond that, you do a disservice to these workers. >> if c...

There racked up. recited by the president today as he took credit for getting america back on its feet this morning. five years after the start of the economic crisis. hard to believe, right? to say that the administration had laid a new foundation for a stronger economy, but the latest fox news poll shows that 60% of americans disapprove of the way that the president is handling the u.s. economy. and you see that number has crept up from september of 2012. a combined 70% say his policies have either hurt the u.s. economy or that they have made no difference in the u.s. economy. joined now by ...

The finance minister of the euro zone, he's the head, the head finance minister, that's europe's economic union and another european leader was so upset by the comments, he came out and in a fair showing of public dissension, called the earlier statements wrong. and this dustup comes as new protests erupt in cyprus and demonstrators there outraged over the deal and effectively steals money, just takes it from the wealthy and from businesses that cannot pay salaries and suppliers. protesters urging the fellow country men and women to fight back, chanting that lawmakers are quote, sucking your b...