anywhere with that edoo we d like to have you back and tell us more. bill he has really moved to the forefront of this issue and pretty good talker, too. martha: he makes excellent points. bill: interesting to talk to him on wednesday when we get reaction from the travelers heading out. getting the thanksgiving feast might cost you core. gas prices are up, if you haven t noticed yet, start. the average price of gasoline, 2.89, up 21 since august, analysts blaming higher prices on temporary shutdowns of refineries and on the weaker value to the u.s. dollar. that story has been creeping up for a while now. now on the radar. fox news alert, this is on the radar, too, dublin ireland, check out the protestsry with we are seeing in central dublin, the protests launched against the irish banks and the trouble they find themselves in now. ireland has asked for a european bailout. it looks like they ll get that. possibly to the tune of more than $100 billion for ireland. details have not be
money for fannie mae and freddie mac. a republican leader republican leaders will end the bail out of fannie mae and freddie mac, a major goal for the next congress, what about this, can they be successful? dagen mcdowell from the fox business network with us now. good morning, dagen. good morning, bill. bill: lay out the strategy. it would be to take fannie mae and freddie mac out of the government s hands. and, put it into the hands of the private sector. we have heard that from congressman baucus and hensarling, and, now the u.s. government and the american taxpayer control the mortgage market, nine out of ten, every new mortgage made, 90% of new mortgages are touched in some way, by the federal government. bill: the taxpayer could be on the hook for how much, if fannie mae and freddie mac have issues. so far, $134 billion and could be well more than double
years we had remember that, bill? it is hard to believe, ten years ago we had a $200 billion budget surplus. bill: i lot of the revenue was from the stock market, i bet, there was a lot more money going into washington and than had been previously. stephen, an interesting read, i encourage people to check it out, okay, from wall street journal, our friend, stephen moore. take care. bill: martha. martha: diplomacy and partisan politics small stuff, really compared to a life and death fight on the home front. just ahead, a look at the softer side of the president s right-hand man, david axelrod s most important battle. susan axelrod is here with us today. next. lp
i think they named it operation hemorrhage because that s what s happening to al-qaeda. the fact that al-qaeda is resorting to keeper plots with fewer working parts, i believe what it says to the united states is two things, that the united states and our allies are winning the war against al-qaeda, and they re having to do this because every time they try to put together a large plot with lots of moving parts and lots of resources extended we wind up capturing and killing these people so now they re going to resort to smaller amounts of money and using fewer and fewer people, and we have to remember that this is not a limitless organization. they re limited in their funding, they re limited in their intelligence personnel, and i didn t say intelligence, but their smart peep, the people you can actually count on to carry all this through. bill: you turn this around and suggest the fact that they went to print with a lot of sarcasm, by the way that, i ll get to in a moment, you suggeste
seeing this because of all of this, steve. because the internet drives so many people to similarly minded people towards a particular place, places like fat wallet compile all of the sales into one particular location and the retailers are getting on board, according to fat wallet owner tim storm. we ve got over a million registered users. looking at, say, thanksgiving day, we ll have 20,000 people logged on at any one time. and because they have so many people at this particular website there are retail theirs don t mind quite so much if their sales get leaked there and there are some that kind of leak it to places like this. it s a bigger bang for their buck to get a few more folks through the door on that big day after thanksgiving. martha: good to know. steve, thank you very much. steve brown with the early shopping picks from chicago this morning. bill: called fat wallet? martha: fat wallet. bill: a lot of us are going to have a skinnier wallet