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Consumer discretionary stocks up the most. Utilities the biggest losers. And while individual trading sessions may have been choppy, it was another month of low volatility. The vix remained below 20 for the fourth consecutive month and thats the longest streak since february of 2007. A big part of the market story has obviously been a big topic dominating the sunday talk shows. Tim geithner arguing republicans need make the next move in negotiations. Republicans have said that they dont like those reforms or they would like to do more. And if thats true, then they should tell us what they woul...

Be in deficit 5. 5 . The only way you keep the private sector in the red, above zero, is if the government deficit is big enough to more than offset the trade deficit. If the u. S. Is running trade deficits on the order of 4. 5 of gdp, the government deficit has to be at least 4. 5 of gdp, or the private sector will fall below zero. Every single time. Here is the cbo forecast. This is what is projected to happen to the government deficit if we hit the cliff. This is the alternative scenario. If we hit the cliff, the projection is that the government deficit will shrink to around 2 of gdp. Defi...

They were not changed. [indiscernible] he read them, i did not see them. There were three basic points. There was a demonstration that grew into a larger violent attack. Very early, we are still trying to figure out what is going on. I forget what 0. 3 was. We did not know who did it. To. Point today we still do not know exactly who did it. It is not a peer it was preplanned. Truck bomb and fall that was clearly an al qaeda planned attack. This was a group of armed terrorists and libya who in a matter of hours there together and armed assault. But we are trying to figure out is what kind of te...

Congressional leadership. I want to thank them for their time. We are well aware that we have important business to do. We have to make sure that taxes do not go up on middle class families. We need to make sure our economy remained strong and we create jobs. That is an addendum that both parties and independents and people throughout the country share. Our challenge is to make sure that we are able to cooperate together, work together, and find Common Ground. Make the compromises and find some consensus. I think all of us agree. We need to be focus on them and not on politics in washington. M...

But look in the mirror and hate yourself, not the people who are doing this work. It is the job of these senators to question policy but attacks are thats what you do instead of dealing with the policy issues. We have have a very distinguished member with us, a good friend of all of us, someone who deals seriously with policy issues and is joined us today and that would be january from illinois. Also i think today of most significance i believe is my role on the Intelligence Committee. All of us were given a briefing based on emerging information from the Intelligence Committee. Susan rice, i ...