spawn home repair scores to have that sort of ripple effect. what about home improvement stores? they re seeing a boom. boom is an understatement. so home repair for example online back in september had more traffic in sales than back to school retailers. and the mom and pop as well as the big box retailers are seeing the effect of this. for example, home depot. when they reported out earnings last month, they came in at $1.5 billion. huge. that s the best it s been in five years. yes. not such good news for soup fans. apparently those are dwindling. campbell s soup, the classic, the one that we all grew up with, they re having troubles. right. well, sam bell s soup is closing down one of their oldest plants in sacramento, displacing 700 workers. now, they ve been trying to revamp their image, bring in a younger look and feel. they do have product they have brand extension with their products. but they also tried to acquire both house farms which is a
you got some equity in your commercial real estate property. you have got some other form of assets. you have got machines that you could borrow against. absolutely? in a machine plant. not so much anymore. not even close basically this is the funny part. they want you to have 60% of the loan already. if i had 60% of the loan i wouldn t need it. it doesn t make any sense. what businesses used to have in order to be able to say okay i have got this all this heavy equipment i m going to borrow against that so i can hire more staff or go into new market or brand extension you can t do that anymore. small businesses are real little handcuffed not only the brand new one that hasn t been proven. seasoned. entrepreneur who has done it over and over and over again they are also not getting the break. they are not getting paychecks and every dollar is going into the company. and every dollar right now is not coming back out of company. tough new era. amilya antonetti, good to he sue morni
tweak. he needs a brand extension. one thing he needs to add to his sbrand brand a little testosterone, a little fight. people want to see teeth. hasn t he been doing that in the past month. putting some teeth, putting some fight. he still does not have what do you want him to do? spit when he talks? when the vice president did that everybody here this is the beginning everybody here had a problem with that. this is the one thing he hasn t had in his dna. that s what i would add. david, the republicans this week are accusing him of stoking class warfare. when you re president of the united states, you ve got to walk a very fine line. i would say my opinion is, david, this president has been very focused going out on the campaign trail, campaigning for re-election, attacking republicans and it seems to be
the anesthetic that finally killed him. it took him to the valley of death and did not bring him back. this is piers morgan tonight. gerard butler s career took off in his role in 300. he s played everything from leading man to action heroes and animated. his latest is a searing performance in machine gun preacher. gerard butler joins me now. jerry, i think you re preferred to be known. americans call you gerard. which we can t have that. you re irish descent, but you re scottish, aren t you? that s right. scotland they never say gerard. they say jerad. i think we should insist on this pronunciation. yeah, yeah, yeah. let s start with your physique, because you look, unfortunately you re looking great, but i want to show you, luckily, a picture from last year where you weren t in such a great shape. all of the women have been going crazy. i prefer the gerard on the left, you know why, it s more like me, it s more like me. so that men like me look to yo
death and did not bring him back. this is piers morgan tonight. gerard butler s career took off in his role in 300. his latest is a searing performance in machine gun preacher. gerard butler joins me now. jerry, i think you re preferred to be known. americans call you gerard. which we can t have that. you re irish decent, but you re scottish, aren t you? that s right. scotland they never say gerard. they say jerad. i think we should insist on this pronunciation. yeah, yeah, yeah. let s start with your physique, because you look, unfortunately you re looking great, but i want to show you, luckily, a picture from last year where you weren t in such a great shape. all of the women have been going crazy. i prefer the gerard on the left, you know why, it s more like me, so that men like me look to you in the shot on the left and thought fantastic, then to our utter horror you emerged from a soccer match in britain on the right looking like that. kind of c