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Something from his record that he can point to specifically when he s out on a trail. things that he s done when he s trying to court an appeal to those kinds of constituencies. we have to take a break here. nick his, caitlin, and jerri, thank you for joining us tonight. coming up next the most amazing possible thing has happened. someone has changed his mind about edward snowden. no one in politics changes minds. well, it happens. also coming up how michelle obama is trying to inspire a generation known for selfies to become activists. ....
States. many big economies such as asia and europe are struggling. all of this obviously is bad for stocks for the short-term, but great for consumers this christmas. that s right, the big winners in the market this week were retail stocks, many big names like macy s home depot and dollar general all hitting record highs. the plunge in gas prices is a huge tax cut for consumers, economists figure that every penny drop in price savings is $1 billion savings for america. retail sales are up for the past two months exactly mirroring the drop in gas prices, so an early christmas present for all of us. don t miss jerri on our sister network and if you re not sure where to find box business network in your area, just log on to fox business.com celeb channel finder. ....
Customers could download that tv, no slowup in what they were no slowdown no diminution in the quality of video, and other people will be elbowed out. if you re a little guy who puts a site up and has great content, yours moves like anybody else but in this new world the big companies would have all the advantage, much like cable is right now. you have that right. there will be people who have a disadvantage, and i think it might bear on the political conversation. at the end of the day, it s not in the guys with the big horns that need to be heard. that s an interesting development. it is. one we hoped use not come along. net neutrality made sense. i always hope for the best. wish every day were friday. but it ain t. thank you, jerri. thank you. did you hear about this next one? a student who graduates from the university of south florida can ....
okay. you need to sign up by january 1, 2014. provided you have coverage by that start date. if you don t the irs is coming for you. there s a $95 fee or fine or tax, whatever you want to call it, if you don t participate in 2014. after that it goes way up, almost $700 two years hence. so the fees and the fines are high. you have to pay attention because you re required to participate in some way. we ll talk all about this tonight on the fox business network, the willus report, at 6:00 and 9:00 m and we re covering it all week long. so many unanswered questions. trace: and a lot of people are going to say, i d rather pay the 589 95 bucks and then next year we ll talk about it. thank you, jerri. the american student convict and then acquitted of murdering her roommate in italy is now back on trial for that murder. but amanda knox is thousands of ....
Jerri start with the news of the day. the bad news is you have 163,000 jobs expanding, 155 people got out of the workforce. they are depressed. they don t think they can find a job. the real jobs rate, the number of people who got out of the jobs force plus the unemployed it rises from 14.9% to 15%. and that is a shocking number. bill: what our vires are watching now is the market take off on this. matt, explain why that is happening. the big reason the market is caking off, before the number came out the markets were up big. the reason for that is people were anticipating that ben bernanke and the federal reserve is going to come out at some point in the next couple of weeks and do another round of quantitative easing. today s headline numbers made it look great, but as was just explained underlying this headline number is disturbing ....