he is buying into halliburton. capitalism provides employment. george bush didn't practice it with cheapening the dollar. get the ulessite, capitalism works. >> they had their experiment with socialism in europe and the folks didn't like it and they're voting it out. >> that's true, but the fact of the matter is we're going more towards socialism, but what really surprises me is how the dyed in the wools in this country thinks the system is onreproach as if wall street did nothing wrong and if the liars didn't tell some untruths. we have to be truthful about our own capitalist system or we will have and increasing shift towards socialism. >> there is enough criticism against capitalism. we don't applaud people who broke the law or acted stupidly, but that doesn't mean capitalism is wrong. >> look, you can reform capitalism. that is not calling for and at tack on capitalism t needs to be reformed in this country. there are only two people behind bars from the credit bubble bursting and the bear stearns managers an 16 bankers from the s and s&l cri

or halliburton?the great thing is this was something that was discussed in the last congress, and at the time the chamber of commerce was all over it saying there is no way you can cut off funding because you've been violating crimes as federal contractor and those provisions died. so what ended up living through this congress and passing was a data base that you could keep track of misconduct but it wasn't going to be puck lick. that was as much as the congress wanted to do in terms of holding contractors accountable. now that they have done this i hope that we see the data base of misconduct be public and be part of the discussion when there's new contracts going to be funded. >> how could they keep it private? if in fact taxpayers are insane enough to continue to pay taxes into this government and this government is insane enough to continue to dole it out to the special interests that bribe them, there's a point where it's going to become a bit -- impossible, i would imagine, to hold these secret

oils moving to the upside and the energy names have been hitting new highs including apache and halliburton and anadarko as well. i noted a couple of days ago, the big correction in the home building area. many of them down 15% in the last week and a half. today, all of that's turned around. nice move here. look at this. 6%, 7%, 8%, no big specific news, but just getting a better look. >> how are we doing? >> pretty good. i want to stay on the theme of new highs off the bat today for four big cap and wildly-held caps. e may, and amazon all at new 52-week highs. i mentioned apple and gooing vel been doing this every day when the nasdaq has been higher. amazon is getting a nice lift from better than expected retail sales numbers. ebay is up about 2 3/4%. adobe got upgraded today and the stock is to the races. comp store sales were down, but still better than expected. omeros is an ipo we're watching today. shares went out at ten bucks and so far not so good. shares down now about 10.5%, yet another ipo and there have been so many. yesterday here at the nasdaq we did have the biggest ipo in th