best day for the entire year. the dow jumps 287 points. so you can say why, the sheer excitement. the ebulliance. have we suddenly solved all of our economic problems? have we stumbled upon a machine gun of silver bullets? have we found our terminator? not so fast, arnold. today we got shot up with rubber bullets. it was an arsenal of talk but no concrete action. in europe, the central bank chief said officials stand ready to act and there were reports of talks of a possible deal to bail out banks in countries in crisis like spain. that s a lot of talk. being ready to stand by is different than standing by. here at home, the fed said it may be ready to take further action to help spur the economy, extending unprecedented efforts to ease credit. now, that s still talk and not action. is this what we have come to, so desperate, hanging on to the economic precipice that a little sweet talk sends stocks to the moon? outfront tonight, doug holtz-eakin, and robert reich, author of
outfront tonight we have breaking news. a surge of the day. stocks just jumped to the moon. dow and s&p had their single best day for the entire year. the dow jumps 287 points. so you can say why, the sheer excitement. have we suddenly solved all of our economic problems? have we stumbled upon a machine gun of silver bullets? have we found our terminator? not so fast, arnold. today we got shot up with rubber bullets. it was an arsenal of talk but no concrete action. in europe, the central bank chief said officials stand ready to act and there were reports of talks of a possible deal to bail out banks in countries in crisis like spain. that s a lot of talk. being ready to stand by is different than standing by. here at home, the fed said it may be ready to take further action to help spur the economy, extending unprecedented efforts to ease credit. now, that s still talk and not action. is this what we have come to, so desperate, hanging on to the economic precipice that a lit
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it is nice to see excellence in film making rewarded. acclaimed indy movie new year seve ruled the box office in its opening weekend. the flick brought in $13.7 million beating out the sitter, twilight and something called the muppets. i want to go to andy. andy, you were there first discussing new year s eve. how do you explain its popularity? thank you for recognizing that i was there first. i would like to say that back in september i think it was september 28th i tweeted oh great, now satan is now making movies request it is with a link to the trailer. i was the first person to recognize this move movie. i am like a canary in a coal mine, an excellent song, by the way. i have to correct you on one thing. you said the movie made $13.7 million. that s been down graded to $13 million. i think this can be explained one of two ways. one either all of the families
steve: you want news by the numbers? got them right here. 100 million bucks, that they the price tag for a new program called brand usa. its purpose? to entice foreigners to come to the united states. the money would come from taxpayers and corporations to brand usa. next, 15%. according to new stat, that s how much on-line shopping is up this year and today is supposed to be the busiest on-line shopping day because it is considered the last day you can get that gift sent in time for christmas without paying extra for shipping. finally, $13.7 million, the new comedy new year s eve winning the box office. but this was the worst box office total in almost three years, raking in only