element of people collecting great art. i think what is particularly interesting and really pleasing is that people are collecting outside of the traditional categories. so you have chinese buyers who are buying western impressionist art. american buyers buying chinese art. middle eastern art buying all kinds of global art. so i think people are really focused on the top quality and a cross category. one of the bellwethers of the art market seems to be andy warhol. his triple elvis sold for almost $82 million last year. total sales for andy warhol last year were about $500 million. so how do these two things work together, andy warhol and the art market as one? well, i think andy warhol is clearly one of the great artists of the 20th century and he s recognized as one of the iconic
there have been both years of fat and years of lean. on the mercantile exchange in new york, prices for crude oil, gasoline and heating oil tumbled today. but shale exploration has transformed the landscape and world energy markets. three dimensional drilling fracking and state of the art technology have opened up vast stores of natural gas. technology-driven energy today is what s phenomenal. america s thirst for foreign crude is drying up. and there s change in the air in texas as will. wind turbines generated 10% of the state s pourer over the past year, and some experts say it could double in the future. we had recent days where were it not for our wind power production we would have had rolling blackouts. perhaps the best bellwethers of the technology boom are texas towns like corizzo springs. five years ago it was little more than a sleepy square with
from having serious illnesses that is causing taxpayers tons and tons of money because we re preventing all this stuff now. if we can get someone on cholesterol lowering medications before they have a heart attack, that does a lot for the person and the federal government. that s right. it saves all of us costs in the long run if we re not relying on the most expensive kind of care, emergency care. one of the most interesting bellwethers for the state of health care is something you might not expect. it s in your head. literally. through our partnership with the data mining firm vocativ we got a look at how urgent the need to access to health care is. it s through the lens of america s teeth. take a look. i need everybody up here close. everybody that s got a number, i
80s? exactly. sounds great, i know. perfect. we re so shell-shocked the last six months. exactly. 80s? what s the number with the 8 at the beginning? jennifer, thanks. let s get an early start ayour money. u.s. stock markets are closed right now. i can tell you right now how the dow will close. when it resumes trading tomorrow, the s&p will likely start at a record level just over 1900, that s right, at levels never seen before. so much for that spring sell-off. the nasdaq is up 1.7% so far this month. the dow has been going higher again, too. why? earnings season is nearly over. most companies doing well, the majority of s&p 500 firms have beaten expectations, partly because expectations were so low because of the harsh winter, but we ll take it, right? among the companies we have yet to hear from, costco. its earnings come out on thursday. one of the bellwethers. earnings could point towards americans opening their pockets a bit more or sticking only to buying what th
their side as a potential wedge issue that helps them win elections. bottom line, colorado matters big time in the future of both parties, and we ll see it play out in this midterm. with me now political ed outer and colorado native, vaughn verbers. mr. verbers, colorado, a state that was a republican stronghold is too tough too tough of a term to use in the 90s, but reliable republican. it was reliable, and it mirrored what was going on in the nation. that s what colorado is. it s a bellwether of bellwethers to say to use a cliche. in the 1970s, you had very liberal senators, tim worth, gary hart representing that state. it was part of that movement away from watergate. in the 1980s, got very conservative with bill armstrong, hank brown, and those kinds rising evangelicals, james dobson, focus on the family, out of colorado springs, evangelical movement taking root there. right. and as you noted, nobody saw the