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and meantime, let s talk about what s being called the sugar bailout, the government might have to step in to prop up stumbling sugar prices and that could cost us more if we want our sugar fix and we all do. we all do. absolutely. let me give you a background here. the department of agriculture is enough for 142 billion hershey kisses. it s in the name of trying to prevent a way of default for processors who have borrowed $862 million under a government support program and now you ve got u.s. sugar prices that have fallen 18% since the loans began in october. and this could leave the program with about an $80 million loss which is the biggest in 30 years and i guess what it also means as prices go up, higher prices for us to get that sugar fix, as you say. cnbc s mandy drury, thank
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jenna: well, the world s major central banks taking dramatic action, making it more easy not easing the flow of money, making it more easy for the central bank in europe to obtain dollars and then give those dollars out to their banks inside their euro zone. if you take a look at the dow today, yesterday s a distant memory. the dow soared more than 500 points yesterday, now we re back to down 41. we re going to try to make sense of this with steve moore, senior economics writer for the wall street journal. how do you make sense of what we saw over the last 24 hours? you did a pretty good job of explaining what the fed did. it s very complicated, and the way i ll put it, jenna, for your audience is, essentially, it s like a sugar fix. you know, the fed lowered the rates that european banks can borrow money from u.s. banks for, and the markets went wild. but the problem as you know, jenna, with a sugar fix is you come down from that sugar fix. jenna: it s the worst. [laughter] th