they are corrupt. that is the simple fact. what he did here, musk come up with $45 billion of his own money. you know, it is not so easy to raise another $10 billion. he has, i hope, stirred things up, which is what we need to do, broken the monopoly of the oligarchs in the silicon valley. i mean, we have mark zuckerberg who spent $417 billion to help by elektra for joe biden. the media does not cover it. it is appalling with that man did and no question he did it. they are trying to buy all of the local officials here that was in the media at the other day. so when decisions come down to precincts and so forth, america has never faced anything like these oligarchs appear they are as powerful as the russian oligarchs. and they protect and defend them here at the department of justice busy chasing parents who are challenging school board
msnbc now. i m craig melvin. shoppers have a few more hours to get last-minute gifts and many stores are offering huge markdowns. retailers could bring in $417 billion this holiday season. despite leading the polls in virginia newt gingrich may win the state. the former house speaker and rick perry will not appear on the primary ballot because they failed to submit ret choired numbers of signatures. write-ins in the commonwealth are not permitted. more news on msnbc. in november 1994, pietro pacciani, fingered by an anonymous tip, went on trial. accused of being italy s most notorious serial killer. it had been almost nine years since the murders had mysteriously stopped. now all of italy was focused on one question. was pacciani the monster of florence?
as we told you earlier, the washington post went through the numbers and found wall street has earned more during the first few years of the obama presidency than all eight years of the george w. bush administration. with that surge in profits came a surge in pay. if you want to sound smart today, tell your friends in 2008 total compensation and benefits for publicly-traded wall street banks and security firms hit a record $135 billion. that s in 2010. wall street journal dug that number up adding the gains, up 5.7% from the previous year came as revenues bounced to $417 billion. that is another all-time high. bottom line, wall street is doing just fine three years after the financial crisis. enough of the real news, let s huddle up around the wart cooler to watch fake rick perry on saturday night addressing the loopy speech in new hampshire. we showed it to you a bunch.
2010 revenue at the largest financial firms, 417 billion. that s a record. look at the bigger picture, according to the commerce department, corporations have nearly $1.6 trillion in profits and they re sitting on it, and the middle class, talk back today. will the president s move to embrace business leaders help ordinary americans? let us know what you think. facebook.com, carol.cnn. thank you, carol. can hardly wait. a look at what s ahead on the rundown. protesters forming a human chain in egypt refusing to budge until president mubarak steps down. also do me a favor. empty that till here and put it here. what do you mean? put the money here.
evidence that groundhog day in more ways that one. gas broke yet another record last year thanks to your subsidies and ongoing federal reserve support. we won t make mention of the impact on things like commodities, food prices and all the rest of it, but i digress. pay on wall street up another 6% in 2010, the 25 nchs already reporting have shelled out $135 billion, up from $128 billion from the same companies in 2009. bank retches thanks to multitrillion subsidies going back to 2008, now at $417 billion, another new high. good to have a central bank to reinflate asset prices after a credit bubble, as long as you own the assets. bailout resip gent lice j.p. morgan, goldman sachs, watching the revenues soar, all of which makes the inquiry commission