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You door of england. 16th century. it s the season, time to be generous. shepard: all of this liz taylor excitement dragged the markets down today. direct correlation on that. unfortunately italy having to pay nor for their debt up to 7%. dow down 131 points. been down 360 points. gold down 2.6%. that s a big number for gold to be down. fourth steepest decline on record. a date is not a trend make but a lot of people have been predicting volatility in the gold market. it had to happen. it was only going up. it has got to go down he. shepard: it s balloon boy in that way. eventually comes down. sometimes not so great when it does. i thought so. shepard: gerri willis part of the best team in business. airs over weekday afternoon 4:00 in oxford on the fox business network. some employers are now offering an extra incentive to get employees to lose weight. ....
Mcgraven. you may not have heard of him but he heads u.s. special operations and therefore was the commander of the operation that took down usama bin laden. the chinese dissident who spent 81 days in solitary confinement this year for his protests over chinese corruption. paul ryan the republic congressman described as the most influential politician in america by time magazine because of his budget plan and finally my personal favorite. waity katie getting hitched and bringing gloss back to the royal family. shepard: quite a mix there. thanks a lot. you don t speak for time. nice to see you. stocks were down today and the price of gold took a big hit. price of diamonds is an entirely different matter. especially when they re the ones elizabeth taylor once wore. wait until you hear the details of a record breaking auction. that s coming up. ....
Tomorrow night s huge debate hosted by fox news in sioux city and it could be a game changer. get them to the ballot boxes and to make the decision. shepard: there is the potential for surprises this time. oh yeah. and we re going to see in the next two weeks very aggressive old style bus tour campaigning. rick perry is going to head out and hit 45 cities in the next 15 days. look for the polls to show he has got some movement. he is working on an organization busing people out of state and sewing up a good base here in iowa. michele bachmann county chairman in 9 a of the 99 counties in iowa they hope to have 1500 precinct captains to cover the 1800 precincts that will make up the caucuses on january 3rd. you have rick santorum who has been working very very hard with pastors, home schoolers and other socially conservative christian conservative republics who ....
Everybody admits it might take out a few years to work out the bugs. shepard: wake you up in the middle of night if you forgot to turn off the tv. this is the right call they acknowledge it s kind of annoying. those who support the advertisers say look, these companies spend way too much money on commercials to have people scrambling for the mute button. listen. the job of an advertiser is to get your attention. and then, of course, when your attention they have to hold it when the volume goes up there is a propensity to almost stop in your tracks and times it s shockingly loud. especially during football games when the advertisements come on. the fec didn t just do this on their own, shep. they still had to go to congress to get the authority to get this rule in place. they got it trace gallagher in l.a. thank you. a freak accident today in new ....
Seemed like there was candidate all the time at a coffee shop. hotel room. want to talk about what they have done, what they want to do. this year it s, for some it s polar opposite. now, there still are a lot of republicans out here. they are wondering where the visits went. shep? shepard: i bet they are. if the republic vote has grown in other parts of iowa. what s wrong with candidates spending more time elsewhere? that does make sense but the state parties republic chair says that there are some candidates that may be facing some peril by not spending time out here in western iowa. have a listen. that may be a mistake. one thing that we know, the republicans and turn out on caucus night. even though there are more republicans across the state the one thing you do know in iowa republicans will turn out and they will start the process for whatever it takes to replace barack obama. at this man late but rick perry and michele bachmann will make bus tours here before the to re ....