23%. jon huntsman got 17% to finish in third place. rick santorum finished with 10% ahead of newt gingrich with 9%. rick perry had 1%. well, it was a big win romney needed to shore up the front-runner status. now he s the first republican to win both iowa and new hampshire this morning on cnn, romney turned attention to beating the president. you ve got almost 2 million people that lost their job under this president. you have income that s dropped to 10% over the last four years. you have 24 million people out of work or stopped looking for work. this is a failed presidency. plenty of other people want the chance to go up against president obama. i have a long way to go before i get the nomination, if i m lucky enough to get it. i think we re best off focusing on the failures of this president. in my case i want to demonstrate that i have capacity to make america once again a great place for opportunity, for rising incomes, for job growth. i think mast what people want to
reporter: do you find that you spend more or less or depends on the year? i d like to say i spend less, but you know what? those impulse buys, i don t know if i m actually saving anything. reporter: well, compare this year to last year. did you spend more this year or last year? i think i m spending about the same right now. i don t know. reporter: how about you, nicky? we ll see. we don t know yet. reporter: right now year at zero, but you know, i ve got a credit card, and i ve got some cash, so who knows. reporter: credit card, cash on a black friday, that s all you need. jon, back to you. jon: rich, i m with nicky. if i don t need it, i don t buy it. reporter: that s good, that s good. i m with you on that one too. jon: okay, all right. jamie: really, guys? jon: it s a guy thing. jamie: that s no fun. reporter: it might be. jon: rich edson, thanks. jamie: i ve got to bring a buddy. i won t make any mistakes if you ll come shopping with me. breaking news, we
printing less money. that s great news for the banks and credit card companies but some economic experts are calling this a step back wards. they are opting for a cash only spending diet. joined now by msnbc analyst vera gibbons. we talking about cash diets. is that good? some people are doing them because they are tired of the banks, the sneaky practices, the fees. they can t get credit or their credit card rewards are not that great. other people are doing it because they feel they need to go on a budget. do you have a certain type of person who is going on this cash only diet. is it good for us? does it make stones have a cash only diet, fiscally does you want make sense? the primary benefit of going all cash you can t spend above your means, right. that s the main thing. also you re going to have fewer impulse buys. have emotional attachment to cash that we don t have to our credit cards.
impulse buys for ham centers and gerbils and other small pets. now they are focusing on goldfish because they are looking at goldfish and saying that s no way to live. they are focusing on impulse buys. they say people come to buy the things and don t think about it very long and maybe don t take care of them. and you are devastating the tropical fish in southeast asia but people are upset about this ban. let s hear. first it s dogs and cats, then small animals, then the exotic birds and then, okay, what s left, amphibians, reptiles and tropical fish. i think it s kind of ridiculous. it s too bad. we keep them in a good environment. i think we have an awful lot of creative ideas that come out of san francisco. marriage equality, universal healthcare, being on the cutting edge on the environment. i don t think, though, the idea of panning pets right now is one that is going to get a lot of
and can add up over time. first off, there s a dreaded d word, debt. if you carry a balance on the credit cards, you are throwing money away. if every month you have a balance of $1,000 in your credit card, that has a 18% apr, that s a waste of money. so make it a goal to pay off the balance every single month and while you re at it, don t add to the debt with impulse buys. think you don t do that? well, according to research of university of pittsburgh, more than 75% of participants left room in the mental budgets for an unplanned purchase so make it a rule to give yourself a cooling off period on a purchase and money magazine says look at it but do not touch it. holding that shiny new camera or sweater, whatever the thing may be might increase your sense of ownership and making it harder to walk away, suzanne. okay. so don t touch it. a lot of other people, you know,