much right at the moment. not necessarily feeling it right now, but in the future, i have big plans. if interest rates go up on the home mortgages, i could be a little screwed there. i m in the corporate world. it s concerning. with the prices going up, we cannot afford sometimes what i you know. so it s hard for me. have to pinch here and there. still living our life. neil: the white house learning what americans knew all along. we re indeed in a recession. the economy pulling back as prices refuse to let up. stocks ignored this and moved up what is really up? we re going to talk to senior economic adviser, gene sperling in just a moment. this is neil cavuto and your world. first to edward lawrence at the white house on how all of this is being digested there. edward? the president confident that we re not in a recession. we re hearing it from everyone in the administration. don t look at the gdp numbers. look at job growth. in fact, the jobs that the adminis
reporting. this is our lead story. it matters for justice, for lives in politics. here s the lawyer for those families just moments ago. the jury just returned a verdict for compensatory damages exceeding $4 million. that s a darn good start. we now have the punishment phase. i think it s perfectly expectable we re going to see an over nine-figure judgment against mr. jones. that is a lot of figures. and you can see in this long quest with so much ugly, terrible, reprehensible conduct by mr. jones, and conduct which the court has found lies and defamatory, you can see a note of encouragement there for the people harmed by him. a little bit of what you saw there, a triumph in what is just phase one. let s explain the second phase, because boy is mr. jones worried about that. punitive damages. the punishment. tomorrow, the jury looks at mr. jones, his conduct, which has already been of course judged, and what he has, what he s profited of, and how this all works. again, as
On Thursday's broadcast of MSNBC's "Morning Joe," Steve Rattner, who served as counselor to the Treasury Secretary in the Obama administration, stated | Clips