today the rules have gotten more complicated. today based on your age, your income, your marital status, whether or not your spouse is working, your health situation, all of that conspires to determine when should you take social security. so unfortunately, there is no alternative but to meet with a financial advisor who can evaluate your situation to give you the right answer. sometimes you do need outside help. phyllis is reaching out and says i m 75 and lost almost $65,000 the first three years obama was in office. i had planned on using that for emergencies. now i only have 25,000. what s a good investment with such a small amount to invest? wow, something really went wrong there. i m a little concerned that this money is designed for your emergency fund. if that was the case, the money should have been in the bank. it should have been in a checking or savings or money market. where you can access it, where it s immune from the losses you suffered. i m a little worried that you
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the latest indication, the latest instance of him being at odds with the justice department and with intelligence officials. lynn sweet, i m holding the document in my hands. all 400-plus pages of it. i don t think laser printers in washington have been so taxed since the release of the 9/11 commission report. there it is. i want to get your perspective. i ll read a little bit from what it has to say about carter page. knowingly engaged clandestine activities, other intelligence-gathering activities for or on behalf of such foreign power, about to involve a violation of the criminal statutes of the united states or knowingly conspires with other persons to engage in such activities. and therefore, is an agent of a foreign power. we re trying to get a portrait here of the role that carter page played. with what relief do we have now? what detail do we have now as a result of this document? well, what is coming out now, is this the bigger picture and i want to add for context, carter
households making $250,000 or less, it s $150 billion added to the deficit. it s $850 billion if you extend them for all earners. the question is again, is there going to be a day when these are allowed to expire, when the idea of an impermanent tax cut seems to be political kryptonite? or the idea of ending a tax cut and whatever expires. yeah, i think that that s up for grabs. i do think this is a very, very smart pivot, though, off the jobs situation. getting out in front of this issue now is crucial, because we ve all heard about this fiscal cliff we re moving towards tend at the end of the and tax cuts are part of that, the fact we have to raise the debt ceiling again. once that conspires, economists say that could shave 1% off of growth, if we don t have an extension, if we don t come to consensus about raising the deficit ceiling. i think the president is right to get out in front of it. eric, i love asking you about quotes in the wall street