office, dead. it was among of 13 insurgents killed this the nato air strike in the province. nato bomb hit as 13 insurgents were holding a meeting. meanwhile, goldman-sachs is paying a $550 million settlement that could lead to charges on wall street. analysts say companies may see a new standard for disclosing private sales of securities. it miss lead investors in a batch of securities doomed to fail. it was the largest civil penalty they have paid to the sec. half a billion bucks. george clooney in an italian courtroom, expected to testify in a fashion label case. evidently, he took a tag off a mattress. he s giving evidence against three men accused of fraud, forgery and possession of stolen goods as well as using clooney s name to launch a fashion label and promote a clothing line. they re even accused of forging his signature. say it ain t so.
nothing to do with financial reform that are political agendas of various constituents sis. if you end up with a less healthy financial industry, which we will, you ll have a less healthy economy. you mentioned the two thousand pages. people don t know what this bill means. and it s adding to the problems. one reason we re not creating jobs, there s so much ambiguity, businesses aren t willing to invest. they don t know what healthcare means, they don t no what tax reform or cap and trait trade. i talked to small business owners and they re cautious because they don t understand the implications of this multithousand-page policy. neil: i want your thoughts on the goldman sachs sec settlements. it could be upwards of a billion bucks. what do you think of that. i think goldman sachs made
of corporate america into the hands of labor and making sure organized labor gets their quote/unquote share of the direction of the companies. it s a substantial move away from seeing the companies driven by the concern of the shareholders in general to try to meet the special interests of a few different shareholders. i think this is really a terrible direction to go and this is going to haunt us in a very big way and undermine a lot of corporate america. neil: you ve been right on it. speaking of the financial thing we re waiting to hear from the securities and exchange commission. they might be detailing a settlement that could run a billion bucks, according to our own charlie gasparino, with goldman sachs on the same day the senate passes a financial reform bill that oddly enough does not include the original culprits behind the very disaster that occurred two years
13.7 billion years ago and believe it or not, the radiation is still circulating around the universe. when you turn on your tv or radio, some of that static that you pick up is the remnant of the big bang itself, and that s why the europeans spent a billion dollars gaining the money shot. which is what we ve been looking for, the most detailed photograph of the entire universe, showing its birth. jon: but somebody like you might look at that and get excited. i m looking at that and thinking it s not worth a billion bucks. it is. it shows the origin of why we re here, what is it all about, what does it mean, where is our role in this universe. those are some of the great cosmic questions we can answer with space probes. this is tallerring. jon: if that little band in the center of the picture is the milky way, what it shows to me is we are a teeny, tiny planet in a big universe. it does put us in our place, when we realize how small we are. but also realize that we re probably the o
little perspective on this. united and continental airlines have announced a $3 billion merger today to create a world s biggest airline. if the deal is approved, the massive coast to coast u.s. airline would fly under the name, united, and call chicago its home. the airline is expected that the consolidation could save them a billion bucks by 2013. tom parsons is the ceo of best fares. what s it going to do for passengers? well, again, i think it s going to give some passengers the name recognition, so if you re trying to fly between point a to b, let s say to mexico, today, you can t do that without using a code share. at least you re going to see the biggest airlines serving more u.s. cities than ever before. as it comes to prices however, i think that united or the new united will still have to compete with the low-cost