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recession since the great depression, the divide between the rich and the rest is still deep. can there be a real economic recovery if everyone can't say it's 78 and sunny? stephen moore, chief economist of the heritage foundation and a co-author of a new book. austan goolsbee, professor at the university of chicago booth school of business. gentlemen, thanks for joining us. the economy we learned this week shrank in the first three weeks of the year. 1% contraction. first time in three years. blame it on the weather, kept shopper out of storesance house hunters out of homes. looking backwards. looking forward, growth as high as 4% this quarter. stephen, is this a recovering economy? >> for the past 15 years, a bipolar personality economy. you get some months where you get a nice buildup in the economy, and we've had 3% or 4% growth, then it tumbles again. that's been the pattern

throughout really this five-year recovery. i would say for most americans they're still very worried. americans are -- there's still way too much unemployment and the real anxiety is among middle class people who have jobs. 90% of the americans who have jobbed that are very worried about losing them. >> i would argue 90% of americans don't have jobs. it's actually less. >> you may be right. >> let's not tear apart economic statistics. everyone will turn the channel. let me ask you this, austin. i worry about this caution. you have stocks hitting fresh record highs this week. look at the bond market. talking about caution they're seeing. ten-year treasury bell below 2.5%, a sign of weakness. what's happening here? why can't we get confident about the economy? >> you know, i agree with you. we should be worried about that. i think the main thing that has led this recovery to -- it is recovering but it doesn't feel that great, and i think steve is

right, that people remain worried. i think it's that we had a bubble. the bubble popped. the economy can't go back to doing what it was doing before. and that's a slow process. it means people have to move states, change industries. got to do a bunch of transferational things that are relatively slow. now, i think the decline of gdp and the forecast rebound, a lot of that, you say, has to do with the weather. overall, shown modest growth. no better than modest, but no worst thanned monthest either. >> austin, how do you get to that part of the economy that's doing well? where there's fights, battles for talent? where people are making money. people are making money in stocks, where companies are starting to build out and buy equipment again. how did you make sure you're in that part of the economy and not the part that's not doing anything? >> if you're a earn, the data screams out at you it's about skills and education and training. and we've got to find a way to get people retrained. one of the biggest problems here facing in the long-term

unemployed is they're not coming from industries that are growing, and they don't have the skills to move into those industries. >> christine, i would add something to this. there was a front page story in the "wall street journal" friday that talked about the regional, difference in terms of the growth in regions. save a promotion. what my book is about. the fact that you're seeing real growth in the southern states, and some of the mountain states, you know, my son is graduating from college, as you know. he can't find a job. i said, look, justin, if you want a job, move to texas. you can get a job in five minutes in texas. a lot of states where the economy is booming. i think it has to do with the policy differentials. the region really get creamed right now is the northeast, where you live. new york has lost more jobs than any other state. >> yeah, and home prices in the most recent case, home prices fell in new york, one of the few regions. two key reports on ceo pay. average ceo made $11.4 million last year. re wan the numbers, guys.

it would take 756 years of full-time work at minimum wage to make what the average ceo makes in one year. or cut it this way'sthe combined income of 224 families making the median household income to reach what the average ceo make, median ceo pay. is thas sign of strong corporate performance, austin, or another, i don't know, another line in the growing income inequality story? >> it's probably both of those. you know, corporations have returned record profitability. so you can see why the shareholders are saying, reward the guy. he's making us a lot of money. that's why the stock market is going up. at the same time it is a sign of a vastly diverging economy where a few people are doing amazingly well, and there are a lot of people who are really struggling to get by. >> thanks, guys. have a great day. all right. how to improve to make sure it's 78 degrees and sunny in your economy? the single best way, education. i agree. a trendy debate. is it worth it?

the answer is college worth it, clearly, it's yes. last year the average college grad made more than $29 an hour. the average high school grad, about $16 an hour. david otter actually found not going to college will cost you $500,000 in lifetime earnings. cost you. the unemployment rate for college grad is much lower. right now 3.3% for college graduates age 25 and higher. high school grads, above 6%. numbers clearly say college is worth it. another number. the cost of college, up 544% since 1985. seven in ten college seniors graduate with student loan debt. why is it so expensive? tech billionaire, dallas mavericks owner mark cuban told me what he thinks. >> talk about a bubble. an absolute bubble for tuition and the bubble that's going to burst is when someone smart comes along, finally, some politician and proposed we're going to limit the amount of guarantees in student loans to

$10,000 a year. >> i've heard that theory before. former education secretary bill bennett made the same point right on the show. >> the availability of federal funds continued to drive up prices. >> the question isn't whether college it worth it. clearly it subpoena the question, whether it's time to rethink the way we pay for it. coming up, brad pitt may have gotten all the attention after being attacked at the "maleficent" premiere, but angelina jolie is the real star of the movie. how hollywood's highest paid actress makes and spends her money. next. ♪ led to the one jobhing you always wanted. at university of phoenix,

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>> we neat to get to that tower. >> reporter: altogether her movies brought in almost $5 billion at the global box office. >> i like it. >> reporter: now she's taking on another children's movie that's suring to a hit and bringing home an estimated $15 million paycheck. >> is it true? >> reporter: shirr was the highest paid actress in hollywood without even appearing on the big screen and also the only woman to crack the top ten highest paid actors lists, making about $33 million. >> yeah. well i have a stupid income for what i do for a living. >> reporter: a lot of that cash came fra high-profile endorsements like her $10 million deal with louis vuitton but also has her own wine with brad pitt and her own jewelry line. now known more for what she gives back than what she makes. >> a very heavy experience. >> reporter: donates about one-third of her income to charity. given time and money to the u.n. refugee agency more than a decade visiting dozens of kurnlgts i love spending time

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pedestrians around the city and send a few people to go twice a year and they just sit there with umpire pitch counters. doesn't really give a view what it's like day in, day out, through different seasons. >> reporter: a start-up called place meter is trying to change that providing a realtime picture of, no's pedestrian traffic using hundreds of existing video feed around the city. >> we lay in computer russian all algorithm. >> reporter: counting about 10 million people a day and can count occupy people are inside a building. the city's already using the data, providing pedestrian accounts to businesses in the online business atlas and data integration. >> inside of yelp or google maps you could set up an alart telling you that restaurant you always wanted to try but it always packed, right now is the right time to go. >> reporter: today the company

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right now you know all the dirty secrets of the sterling family. what about the guy buying their franchise? steve ballmer, rising to it's top of microsoft when it ruled the tech sector. judging from his past antics, he'll fit right in as the newest nba owner. he always seemed ready for courtside. former microsoft ceo steve ballmer was famous for energizing his employees. >> i have four words for you --

i love this company! >> reporter: ballmer started, would go at the company and his oversized personality became known fast through videos like this, promoting windows 1.0 in 1985. >> watch as windows loads lotus with "miami vice." >> reporter: and a spoof to this '90s club hit. ♪ baby don't hurt me >> steve ballmer. >> reporter: in 1998, ballmer rose to president, then ceo in 2000. taking the company through hits like xbox and kinect and flops like windows vista. >> our job, our job, is to make sure that not only is pc not dead but we're constantly innovating it, reimagining it. >> reporter: he stepped down at ceo of microsoft just three

months ago but remains on the board of directors and is a digger shareholder than bill gates. he's worth more than $20 billion, according to the forbes and sits at number 35 on the magazine's annual billionaires list. ballmer grew up near detroit where his father was a manager at ford motor company. he went to harvard and briefly attended stanford school of business and is no stranger to the business of sports. his name has been tied to a possible deal for the sacramento kings. but that fell through. now he's poised to make the biggest nba deal ever going from high-tech billionaire to courtside baller. four words --ite write the check. if the deal goes through that gives the sterling family trust a whopping $16,566% return on their investment. donald sterling bought the clippers in 1981 for $12 million. from one tech mogul to another, square ceo and twitter found e jack dorsey wants to give small businesses quick access to cash.

it's an alternative to the traditional loan. our own laurie segall sat down with dorsey. what is he trying to do for small business? >> he wants to help small businesses grow. always jack's thing. first square was essentially, let's help small businesses accept credit card payments. now saying give them an alternative to a loan, a cash advancement if they want. not charge interest, pay percentage by day. i asked details behind that. listen to what he said. >> we have this deep, deep understanding of our merchants, because they're running their own business on the register, we can actually advance them working capital, and we made it very, very easy for them to pay it back in the course of doing their business as well. >> i think data is the key word here, because now a lot of small businesses are using square register and every time someone swipes their card, score takes a little data about the company. what hours are people buying coffee quite a bit? now they're able to look at it and say, question can tell if you need money, we can advance this, and that's the thinking. a little pivot for the company, which to date has focused solely

on mobile payments. >> talk about him a second. a twitter founder, now square. he uses an interesting term to describe himself. >> he does. let me preface this with the fact he used to have blue hair. has a taught tu on this forearm. had a nose ring, ear piecing and calls himself a punk. listen to this. >> i'm still a punk. i always -- what was amazing to me about the punk scene, why i got into it is because there was a confidence of, i'm not going to go off and be shy about learning. >> you know, he's always, has a fight in him. scrappy fight. at the beginning of twitter, everyone said it wasn't going to work and ales of people said it with square. how does he deal with the stress? takes an hour and a half walk to work every day. starts, wakes up at 7:00, gets to work add 8:30. doesn't look at e-mail, text messages, listening to music and it helps him be centered and thinks about things and takes a different route every day

because there's something surprising about deviation to routine. >> he is a punk. >> a punk. thank you for starting your saturday smart with us. follow me on twitte twitter @christineromans. have a great weekend, everybody. hello. i'm dana bash in for fredricka whitfield. we're following breaking news in the "cnn newsroom." america's only known current prisoner of war is now in u.s. custody. army sergeant bowe bergdahl was taken in afghanistan in 2009, and now we've learned this -- special forces picked him up at 10:30 a.m. eastern from his captors in afghanistan in ex-chains for his release's u.s. handed over five detainees from guantanamo bay. bergdahl is now in a forwarding operating base in afghanistan and his family just hours ago learned he was free. the local qatar government brokered the deal.