reporter: now the benefits of hydraulic fracturing, gas prices now are at a 10 dollar low, a 10-year low, rather. as gas exploration continues will be put gas wells in greater proximity to houses and humans. it is incumbent, jon, upon these companies to do a better job to make sure they seal that top part of the well. we have an informal poll on foxnews.com? do you think fracking contaminates well water? we have 24 how people weighed in. 64% say, no it doesn t, jon. jon: john roberts live from atlanta. john, thank you. jenna: we have all seen it in the movies, right? people staring at the swinging pocket watch one minute, hypnotized next and suddenly they re cluck like a duck on stage in front of everybody on youtube, right? hypnosis is supposed to put folks in a deep transand able to change their behavior in one way or the other. now we re hearing about medical hypnosis where a
whirlpool, lg, they have both said they will be raising prices because of steel and because of metal prices increases. but also because of those labor prices around the world. and toothpaste, soap, you can see 1% to 2% price increases there, because things like palm oil and many of the ingredients that go into the beauty and health care products, those have been rising as well. i talked to an economist and i said is it just things like cold snacks and rising china gobling up the world s resources? what are the reasons why so many commodities are moving up at the same time? he blames the fed, pumping $600 billion into the economy, keeping the dollar low. he says that many of these commodities have become almost like financial instruments, where investors, speculators are pushing money into these hard assets at a time when the economy s also starting to recover and there s more demand for these things and that s driving up a lot of different commodity prices around the world. so we sho
with with, you know with the dollar low, i mean, with the interest rates low, creates an opportunity for corporations to sell their products cheaply overseas. that will increase increase de make it so they need to hire more people and to, you know, build new equipment. but, again, they ve had this $2 trillion on their balance sheet now for over a year. so why aren t they doing it at the moment? again, it gets back to this uncertainty question. i just don t think with the health care bill now, you know, up for debate, the new tax laws, the new regulations required for dodd/frank, it doesn t seem like there s the kind of certainty that these guys need. i know with interest today that no wall street ceos were included in this mini-summit in washington, whether we re calling it the coca ca-cola sum or the beer summit. they re the ones that, frankly, need to help restore confidence across corporate america by