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is taking victory laps on the economy turning around. gasoline prices are up 91% during that time. don t people expect that to happen? gas goes up almost double under this president. did anyone see that coming. here s a guy who said no, i m good for the economy. no, he s been nothing but bad. look at this. a year ago, $3.13. the day he was sworn into office is $1.87 a gallon. things are going the wrong way. all the unrest going on in the middle east between ahmadinejad and the israelis, our inability to work the peace process out, that will put more pressure on that. let s hop in the way back machine. if you remember when barack obama was running for the president of the united states, he was a senator and the price of gas was going up. it was between $2 and $3 a gallon for the most part and yet, the people on in capitol hill, were outraged at the president, the democrats knew.
as nina mentioned. it pushed gold up to 1493 an ounce. the hang seng off by 1.3, the shanghai composite by 1.87%. one of the biggest victims today was toyota, the world s number one automaker saw its stock slide 3.1% in tokyo. that was just a day after news broke that production resumed at all of the company s domestic plants. another casualty, the tokyo electric power company. tepco stock dropped 2.8% on tuesday, nina. thanks very much, pauline. listen to this. it s a welcome sound for investors there in wall street. we re about to hear the opening bell after a wall street difficult ride on monday. that ratings blow from standard & poors that you were talking about, giving stocks quite a hammering on the other