and healthy night. from all of our colleagues across the networks of nbc news, thanks for staying up late. i will see you at the end of tomorrow. thank you at-home for joining us this hour. so, there are minimalist candy bars, and there are maximalist candy bars. minimalist are the ones like, you know, a classic hershey s bar, just chocolate, or a heath bark, which is coffee in the middle and then chocolate. my favorite is a payday bar, i don t know what that is, it s basically like peanuts and grew. i don t know. but a picnic bar on the other hand is not one of those a minimalist once. it is a maximalist candy bar. it is like if you combine all the things in a snickers bar and a milky way and a crackle bar, it s got like caramel, peanuts, new get, cookie, and a whole bunch of other stuff in there. it is like the jumble area of candy bars. and they are delicious. they are not a big thing in the united states for whatever reason, although i think you can get them
minimalist ones. it is a maximalist candy bar. it s like if you combined all the things in a snickers bar and a milky way and a crackle bar, it s got like carmel and peanuts and puffed rice and a nougat and a cookie and a whole bunch of other stuff in there. picnic bars are like a jambalaya of candy bars. and they re delicious. they re not a big thing in the united states, for whatever reason, although i think you can get them here. i know they are very popular in lots of other parts of the world. here, for example, are picnic bars on a supermarket shelf in russia. and you can see from the little price tag looking thing there that they re listed for 14 rubles each, which is almost nothing. 14 rubles is like 16 cents in u.s. dollars. picnic bars that cheap in russia? no, actually, they re not. this was not a blow-out 16-cent sale on delicious candy bars. you see the description written there in russian. if you translate that into english, it says, this quote, russian soldiers
classic hershey s bar which just chocolate or a heath bar which is toffee in the middle and then chocolate. my favoritee is a payday bar.ay i don t even know what that is. it s basically like peanuts and goo. i don t know. but a picnic bar, on the other hand, is not one of those minimalist ones. it is a maximalist candy bar.ma it s like if you combined all the things in a snickers bar ane a milky way and a crackle bar, it s gotba like carmel and peans and puffed rice and a nougat and a cookie and a whole bunch of a other stuff in there. picnic bars are like a jambalaya of candy bars. and they re delicious. they re not a big thing in the united states, for whatever reason, although i think you can get them here. i know they are very popular in lots of other parts of the world. here, for example, are picnic bars on a supermarket shelf in russia. and you can see from the little price tag looking thing there that they reth listed for 14 ruble s each, which is almost nothing. 14 r
for? if you do, raise your hand. all right. thank you. i appreciate the other four of you not labeling those who are different from you un-american. that is just one snippet from the hearing on capitol hill. we ve got more for you later in the show. i want to bring in senator maria cantwell, she was there, from washington state. thanks for coming on. we heard it more than once, oil companies are saying they re being singled out for punishment, discriminated against, that is the word they re using. your response? listen, we have a top deficit problem so we re looking at things that look like subsidies that we don t need to be giving to individual companies. but i also think we heard something very important from the oil company executives today. they said they are not pricemakers, it s a global market, that they can t control the price. yet one of the execs said he thought if it was based on supply and demand that today
i think next year is going to be tough. the consumer i ve heard a lot of ceos say this is still going to be a consumer-driven recovery, just not an american consumer-driven recovery. it s going to be elsewhere, is that right? absolutely. we re bumping along the bottom, 1.2% growth in gdp. look at what s going on in china, 11% growth. extraordinary growth there, india, 9% growth. brazil, on fire. all i hear from executives today, they re pouring money into brazil. you ve got $1.8 trillion in cash that corporations are sitting on. they re not spending it in the united states, but they are spending it in china, india, latin america. she s creating 13 new plants for pepsico throughout china. and that means jobs and everything else because there are tax incentives to do that. businesses always say we have uncertainty. aren t things more certain now? the president has given the bottom line on the tax cuts. finreg is passed, health care is passed.