iran. the huthies claimed responsibility for that a couple days ago. ed? ed: thanks, rich. the fed s office of government ethics released the president s financial support. provided information about earnings from hotels and other businesses. ed lawrence has more. good to see you. yeah, very interesting things in the president s financial disclosure form. some breakouts here. the president earned $90,000 from a screen actor s guild pension. most of his income came from properties, making millions from his golf and other resort clubs to the tune of $247 million last year. some high profile places the president visits pulled in big sums. he owns mar-a-largo. he made $22.7 million on the club. trump national golf course, he made $15.7 million. the trump national in washington d.c. area, he pulled in $13.3 million. as much money as he made on his
industry with businesses that could potentially be vulnerable to prosecution in the future. the legal cannabis industry employs between 165,000 and 230,000 people, according to the marijuana business daily, which washington post notes is two to three times as many as coal mining. in states with the most liberal laws, taxes on cannibis are a huge boom. colorado raked in $247 million in 2017 in marijuana-related tax revenue. millions of dollars of these revenues have been put back into public schools. and what happens if these legal growers and distributors shut down? illegal activity takes it place. as california republican congressman says sessions just delivered an extravagant holiday gift to the drug cartels. i guess sessions and trump might prefer to call it a christmas gift. up next, not a whole lot of
p.m. on thanksgiving. it s everything for retailers. black friday is everything. what black friday is is the day after thanksgiving first of all. and it means it s a way for the retailers to turn a profit to go into the black. they have all of their door busters. you look at the national retail federation says on black friday last year, consumers spent $60 million. look how much people spend. a record 247 million shoppers visited stores, shopping online over black friday weekend. that s up from 226 million from last year. and a big draw is to go online as well. it s just a big weekend. macy s is trying to jump on the band wagon. but to break tradition, 155 years. you can t sit there and watch people i know. if you can t beat them, join them.
you are traveling a lot. time to book it next year. book it at the end of the quarter. book it now end of december for any time. that s when it is going to count as a sale. they can write it for this month 2012 taxes. buy kitchen electronics and small appliances now. yes. if you didn t have a conditions to shop over the ohio day weekend with 247 million other shoppers still good deals out there. prices on some items are actuallyetter now in the early weeks of december such as kitchen electric small appliances, 16% cheaper on average they can be. and also toys. one week before christmas. deal news actually found they reach their lowest price one year before. everybody has already bought their toys some of the more popular toys buy them then and save. find a new job. this is the time of year to find a new job. people think december is not a good time to look for a job. contrary to popular beliefs, executive serve from exec
he s such a cancer to the economy. to call this a recovery is an insult to recoveries. we have 11.7% unemployment, not 8.1%. the president has not improved the american economy. sorry, bill. the cold truth is president obama has improved the economy. america has reelected the president who brought the economy back from collapse. let s take a look at some numbers. because unlike republicans, they don t lie. 247 million shoppers visited stores this black friday weekend. they spent an estimated $59 billion over the four-day period. sales up over 12% from last year. the housing market is looking pretty good these days. average home prices rose for the sixth consecutive month. home prices are up 3% from this time last year.