her morning begins with arthritis pain. that s a coffee and two pills. the afternoon tour begins with more pain and more pills. the evening guests arrive. back to sore knees. back to more pills. the day is done but hang on. her doctor recommended aleve. just 2 pills can keep arthritis pain away all day with fewer pills than tylenol. this is lara who chose 2 aleve and fewer pills for a day free of pain. and get the all day pain relief of aleve in liquid gels. look at the economic impact from the earthquake. japanese stock markets plunged more than 6% today, not surprising, even as japan announced it would pour $183 billion into its economy to keep it afloat. steve liesman is cnbc s senior economics reporter.
tea party activists staged their own rally in support of governor scott walker s budget bill. i m joined by cnbc senior analyst ron ensanaa, with a good sunday morning to you. and to you as well, alex. why are we seeing massive protests? what s at stake here? well, i think a lot s at state. when you look at washington and state capitals, we re talking about the unsustainability of the benefits and the various entitlement programs that exist, whether they come through the federal government or whether they re overly generous benefits at the state level for public employees. and what we re really this is where the rubber hits the road in this country, with respect to what people feel about debt and deficit reduction as long as it doesn t affect them. now, there are obviously more issues at play in some of the local situations here where teachers have a very legitimate right to want to be paid well. it s an extraordinarily important position. they do raise our kids they re not
crush s pictures, even the bad ones. but the company behind match.com and chemistry.com says business is booming. its subscriber base jumped 30% last quarter and its profits did too. cnbc s julia boorstin is in los angeles. just today people were commenting about valentine s day, looks like there might be a love connection on my facebook page. who needs these dating websites, julia? here s the thing, contessa. people join dating services because they already november their friends and they want to go beyond that have circle of friends of friends. people want to go and reach a whole new network. that s what dating sites provides. there s also another he wieleme having the service do some work for you. eharmony you fill out a questionnaire and the company picks up people they think will be a good match for you. you ve got like, for instance, 50 to 60-year-olds becoming the fastest growing demographics on match.com, up
hello, newcomers. six new breeds are going to get a shot at being the top dog at westminster. these mutts and other canine cuties of all shapes and sizes will strut their stuff when the annual westminster kennel club dog show kicks off tonight at madison square garden. cnbc s darren rovell joins me with the latest. they hate that i called them mutts because to get in you have to be a designer dog. aren t they just designer mutts? i think they are. reporter: once i saw the sign that said bitches in season, i think everything else is off. the way that these breeders and owners take care of their dogs, the reason that they do this well and they really want to be here has nothing to do with money that they can win here. you can t winnie money. the best in show gets $10,000. everyone else, that s it. they don t make any money. they get a plate of silver. it s not even sterling silver.
and with the deficit expected to reach an all-time high of $1.65 trillion we re reducing programs that are important programs that we care about and we re doing what every family does when it sits around its kitchen table. we re making the choice about what do we need for the future. democrats and republicans agree cuts need to be made. where they disagree, what to cut and by how much. when are we going to get serious about cutting spending? it has to happen and it needs to start now. we re broke. and john harwood is cnbc s chief washington correspondent. so the president is proposing all these cuts, proposing, though, a 28% increase for the securities and exchange commission. those are the folks that regulate wall street. he s giving them more money. how much pushback is this budget going to get? reporter: there s going to be a lot of pushback from what s in this budget. by the way, this little thinly volume is only a tiny slinlder peels of it. you have about five more pho