candidates aren t telling you about what is and what is not within their power to change. but first, i ll tell you about a storm that s raging in the distance. it s headed to our shores. it s an economic storm. it hasn t hit yet. we re starting to feel the outer bands of it. those who watch me every week know, i m generally an optimist. but i understand the u.s. economy. the u.s. economy is driven about it confidence of its citizens. the customer in this case is the american consumer and is always right. they think things are slowing down, it will welcome self-fulfilling because they ll stop spending. businesses stop hiring. and the economy could grind to a halt. let me tell what you i m talking about. here s the good news. we had 20 straight months of job growth in the united states. the pace of that growth is slowing. the last five months, there have been fewer jobs created each month than were created than in the month before. but jobs are being created, not lost. so that
right. they think things are slowing down, it will welcome self-fulfilling because they ll stop spending. businesses stop hiring. and the economy could grind to a halt. let me tell what you i m talking about. here s got news. we had 20 straight months of job growth in the united states. the pace of that growth is slowing. the last five months, there have been fewer jobs created each month than were created than in the month before. but jobs are being created, not lost. so that should make people feel better, not worse. let s talk about your homes. a lot of your equity is there. the home prices in the routes probably at or near their bottom. the so-called shadow inventory of homes is lower. foreclosures are up. but those are a new wave of foreclosures from the signing scandal. we re probably near the end of this thing. fewer homes, less inventory makes it a good time to buy. if you re buying a home, at 4% mortgage interest rate or lower on a 30-year fixed mortgage, the rate yo
and a half dollars over the course of their entire career because of that wage gap. what this legislation does is provide cover for them so if they do inquire, that if they do protest for having a wage disparity, they ve got coverage. frankly, i don t understand why i mean, i understand that there s legal costs involved but corporations should be glad and should be quite honest about what people are making. this is about kind of pulling the curtain back, about who is getting paid what and it s not fair. wouldn t this all be fixed if corporations just paid men and women equally if they were doing exactly the same job and the same hours put in? yeah, i would say that most of them are. you know, i think we re trying to build out a problem here that doesn t exist, as widespread as everybody wants it to believe now. oh, wow, i m sorry, i have to say, it does exist. you look at latino women, they re making $0.52 to the dollar. african-american women, $0.61 to the dollar and the avera
commander, had this to say about iran. we are of the opinion that the iranian regime is a rationale actor. general martin dempsey sending a message to israel saying now is not the time to strike. they re bragging about their advances. prime minister benjamin netanyahu will meet president obama at the white house on march 5th for discussions. stewart: jennifer griffin, thank you. with gas prices surging, where is the media reporting? look at the all the front pages today. nothing, not there. we did find a headline from march 8 2011 when the price was $3.52. the headline, u.s. economy is better prepared for rising gas
we re seeing right now, $120 or something in europe, that won t hit the pump for a good 30 or 45 days so we re going to see gas prices rising for a long time. i think so. it looks like $4 as the national average is definitely on the horizon. it s already arrived in california. the average for all gas stations in california, regular unleaded is now $4.03 a gallon. here we come. we re heading to $4. sure, so we re heading to $4. let s give folks at home a little historical perspective. when barack obama was president of the united states for the first day, the gas at the pump there in washington, d.c. and across the country, the average was $1.84, fast forward to today, $3.52, as you can see. interesting, we were talking about this on friday, as you know, when the president was then senator running, he said of the high price when george bush was president, you know, if i m elected, we should have the department of justice investigate whether or not there s some collusion going on her