two horses went for more than a million dollars. a lot of these horses will be sent to japan and middle east and europe to be raised. these are yearlings and this is a huge industry, guys. last year 10.7 billion wagered on horse racing. and we have a lot of notable people on the ground here. yesterday, we followed around, celebrity chef bobby flay. he is a good friendd of fox and friends. we asked him, why would a chef with plenty of money want to get in horse racing where there was a lot of risk. this is what he told us. i am looking at it as buying a building literally. it is like buying an expensive real estate. if i buy that horse tomorrow night, i am going to own her for 20 years and i know that she s not going to reap the
history there well. that is for valentine s day? you meet even be able to get in tonight. it s not for valentine s day proper but next weekend for two nights. that s a holiday weekend. it is. you have a lot of choices with this so valentine s day can really last throughout the week. and through the year. so love just goes a long way. ooh-la, la, i like that. americans are gambling more of their hard-earned dough and especially in las vegas. gaining revenue increased last year to $10.7 billion. atlantic city has seen a decline with revenue falling 7% to 3.3 billion. the figures run through november but industry experts say the trend is clear. americans are returning to the gaming tables.
this poll today. only 40% of americans approve of how president obama is handling the economy. that s the lowest of his presidency. as for john boehner, we learned that since he took over as speaker, his net approval rating has dropped 12 points to 42%. not everyone is doing poorly in this economy, mind you. today when national gas prices averaged $3.89, exxon mobil reported a first quarter profit of $10.7 billion with a b dollars, a 69% increase from this time last year. royal dutch shell reported $6.3 billion, a 30% increase from last year. as for the stock market, it s doing just fine as well, thank you very much. with stock indexes hitting 2011 highs. so how do you explain the economic reality we continue to face, in which a small set of powerful economic interests are bathing in cash while most of the rest of the country
in phillips colon health defended against the bad gas, diarrhea and constipation. .and? it helped balance her colon. oh, now that s the best part. i love your work. [ female announcer ] phillips colon health. the paul ryan republican budget includes $40 billion in taxpayer subsidies for the oil industry. exxon mobil today announced that its profits this past quarter were the second highest profits ever record for any company in any industry ever in the history of the world. they were first too. now they have come in second. exxon made $10.7 billion in profit. in three months. which means that since i started this segment, exxon has made this much money. that many dollars in profit. $1,400 a second. $83,000 a minute. $5 million an hour. they make $5 million an hour, 24 hours a day, just in profit.
fiscally conservative, but if you re dealing with a budget deficit, cutting revenue is bad for the deficit. it is not good for the deficit, it is bad for the deficit. it is not addition, it is subtraction. if we had full transparency about this, full understanding of all this, what s being done by the republican governors and legs tours in the states now would not be described in beltway media as fiscal conservatism. it would be described as provely gassy. as madness that could even get canadians excited enough to stand up and throw paper about. in michigan, faced with a $2 billion budget $1.8 billion to give tax breaks. in new jersey, they were faced with a $10.7 billion gauft. chris christie proposed $200 million in corporate tax breaks. in florida, faced with $4.7