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will join me in a minute. i'll ask him whether mitt romney was absent or sleeping when he approved that claim. but to be fair politicians make a lot of promises to get your vote that they don't keep. we tracked more than 500 promises that president obama made during his campaign in 2008 when he was candidate obama. he's kept 37% of those promises. he's working on 23% of them. he's broken 16% outright and compromised on 14% to get the job done. the rest, some of you like to tweet me a lot and point out the many promises that he hasn't kept. some of those broken promises can be blame...

>> all right. >> they're in a quandary. they love having the higher price. they love to generate the revenue. >> i got to stop you guys there. i know this conversation is going to go on further. we will make this the place for you to have it. you two guys have a will the of great opinions on this, stephen leeb and chuck lieberman. we're going to talk more about oil, gold, commodities and speculation in the weeks to come. there are reasons for you to feel good about your financial future. i'm going to tell you why in my x, y, z next.

Same way you look at pork bellies, wheat. you don't think of wheat as an investment. it's a commodity. >> what do you think, stephen? >> it is in a certain sense a commodity, but it's also a currency. when you buy gold, you do get a return when inflation is rising. if you look at commodity inflation, it's gone crazy. what happens when you have high commodity inflation like we do, commodity scarcity, you have to print evermore money, evermore currency. i believe it's a race to the bottom with euro, the european debt problems right now, our own debt problems here, we're going to have to continue...

Gold could go down as easily as it gez up. >> short term, yes. >> you've given us good points. thanks to both of you stephen leeb and the author of "game over" and chuck lieberman of advisors capital management. good to see you both. investing in gold, bright shiny object, one of the things our brains have been grappling with more more than a thousand years, one of many financial choices we're confronted with on a daily basis. why is it that smart people do dumb things with money? it might be because of the way we're wired. my good friend christine romance takes a closer look inside our brai...

>> the most optimistic man in america about social security, michael astrue. we'll probably have you back when we can flush through it a little bit, flush through it with your viewers. >> sure. i'll be glad to come back. you know where to find me. >> let's go back to our panel. they've been listening to this conversation. stephen, your first thoughts on what you first heard? >> i'm not optimistic as michael is. won testify problems he didn't address is that about a trillion has been basically stolen from the trust fund by politicians over the past 20 years. to use them for military systems and...