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in a day of light trading but troubles elsewhere. grow of economic recovery. the drop of consumer confidence followed housing report with the prices falling 1.3% across the country. peter barnes joins me now with the latest. great to have you here. what else did we learn from the housing report? this is an index of housing prices, in 20 cities, top 20 markets. prices were down in all 20 cities. lowest level since may nationally. the third monthly decline. this is not a good report. the author of the survey says he doesn t see housing turn around soon, maybe not for years. you have tenth of a labor force up employed and think maybe next month i ll be up employed. you have to be. these people are not in the mood to buy a house. shiller is worried about a double dip in housing market. what about the consumer confidence? it was down unexpectedly in december. way down from where it was in the spring. it s still at levels we saw a year ago at this time. when the eco ....
And blow up themselves and kill others? they use it as recruiting tool. shannon: we are talking about closing down guantanamo bay. bring back our panel, steve, a. b. and charles. steve, a magazine you write for, looked at the 34 me sams from the top al-qaeda leaders. mentioned three times. is it a recruiting tool or not? it may be at the lowest levels but not from the al-qaeda central like osama bin laden and ayad allawi and the top leaders as we have known them for the past decade. the white house has been saying this for years. but tom joslin a colleague of mine did the study and looked at the 34 messages put out and by the top al-qaeda leadership. found it mention ed a total of zeb times. if you think they re recruiting, it s young. they would have mentioned itsen times total. by comparison to give you ....
in a day of light trading but troubles elsewhere. grow of economic recovery. the drop of consumer confidence followed housing report with the prices falling 1.3% across the country. peter barnes joins me now with the latest. great to have you here. what else did we learn from the housing report? this is an index of housing prices, in 20 cities, top 20 markets. prices were down in all 20 cities. lowest level since may nationally. the third monthly decline. this is not a good report. the author of the survey says he doesn t see housing turn around soon, maybe not for years. you have tenth of a labor force up employed and think maybe next month i ll be up employed. you have to be. these people are not in the mood to buy a house. shiller is worried about a double dip in housing market. what about the consumer confidence? it was down unexpectedly in december. way down from where it was in the spring. it s still at levels we saw a year ago at this time. when the eco ....