First, i want to tell you about our special series. The users guide education. Tonight i am going indepth on choosing the right college. It sounds easy, but there are more than 4500degreegranting institutions and get to choose from. Figuring out the best place to go is no small task. He now how much the school is spending per capita on Educational Programs . Most tuition costs are not spent on tuition and said schools are putting money into fancy facilities and jams and student unions. None of that will help your child prepare for the real world among my guest tonight, brian kelly who put together u. S. News and world report best colleges list and has the exclusive rankings of 18 colleges based on half a million datapoint. Pretty good stuff. We will be talking a lot about that. First, our top story, pain at the pump. A thousand times over the National Gas Prices sitting in a milestone. A thousand days about 3 a gallon. Gas prices going up 91 . So no wonder hes seems eager to distract a
Gerri we are looking at ways to cut your College Costs. Joining me now jay cross, founder of the do it yourself degree. You are a young fellow about 26 years old. Tell us how you came up with the idea to do it yourself. And how does this work . I was actually in a situation not unlike that of many of my current students. I was attending a fouryear college. On paper, it is pretty close. It because i was ready to graduate, and i was miles away. Gerri so they werent offering your courses . That is correct. They didnt offer any notice of what they gerri so what did you decide to do . Would apply this to my college class, i found this incredible strategy where we are taking a course for thousands of dollars, you can take a threehour test in the same subject that covered all of the same material. When you pass you get the same credit for taking the equivalent course. What i would tell people is that the exact same degree. Your discerning it officially. Gerri heres what i dont understand. You
Hollywood ought to be worried. And twitter so confident it may charge for hash tags. Were going to follow the countdown. And three more governors speak, you follow the money, its flowing into technology and you will see as Varney Company starts the new week. Neil and buzz for teaching us that you cant create the future. By clinging to the past. And with that youre history. Instead of looking behind. Delta is looking beyond. 80 thousand of us investing billions. In everything from the best experiences below. To the finest comforts above. Were not simply saluting history. Were making it. A tech takeover driving americas economy and the market, too. Look at this breakdown. The entire stock of apples new iphones sold out in less than 24 hours. 9 million phones all over the weekend, thats a record. 200 million phones now operating on the ios 7 system. Apple telling its customers dont expect to get your hands on one until next month. Ill tell you now, that stock is going straight up. The vid
We will get to tonights top story in just a moment, but first a quick note about our special series this week on the users guide to education. Tonight at the bottom of the hour i am drilling down on one of the Biggest Challenges for American Families when it comes to sending their kids to college and that is this, getting the best Financial Aid package. Im going to walk you through step by step the best way to get loans and the free money scholarships. And i will talk to former education secretary, she has some revealing thoughts about the shortcomings of College Education and will result the mac respond to that charge. All coming up. But now on to tonights top story. Federal reserve announcing hours ago it will not not taper the 85 lien dollars of monthly bond buys due to the economic outlook. A lot to get to come a lot of great stories. Chief economics correspondent for the wall street journal. My head is still reeling from this. The fed set us up for weeks, months to expect some dia
Also, we did start to the upside. We have since pulled back. We have had a 100point swing from top to bottom. We have oil and gold on there for you as well. The dollar has gained. This will also be a busy day going into the close. Volume is likely to be very heavy and can sometimes be a real milestone. We have some names that are hitting some new highs. Tesla, netflix, amazon. There may be some red arrows across the board. We have plenty of winners for you. Back to you. Lori thank you. We will see you in a couple of minutes. Will washington get its act together in time . Welcome back to the show. The center made a very interesting statement, i thought, earlier. Costly steps were taken to prepare for the taper. Was not tapering a waste and is that an issue that bernanke and company considered when making a decision earlier not to taper . Over the next week they will decide whether or not the government will shut down at the end of the month. We could run into the debt ceiling issue once