john mack is the former c.e.o. of morgan stanley, one of the first global investment banks to establish a presence in china. zhang xin is the c.e.o. of soho china, one of the country's largest real estate developers. ian brepl smer the of eurasian group. i am pleased to have them all here to talk about china, the plit currents and i begin with you. tell me how you think chinese economy looks over the next several years. what are the challenges? >> i think 2011 we had one of the most challenging years. in the 17 years i have become... i've been doing i have never seen credit so tight. banks are not lending because, you know, china was fighting against inflation so the way to do it is to tighten the credit. as a developer, of course, even worse, residential developers, you cannot sell home. for those who have one home, you can simply not buy a second home no matter what your need. so that was how the chinese government was so strict in controlling the inflation. but by the end of last year inflation is pretty much un

and there is only one man in this race who has really ever fought for you, and that's senator john mack contain. chris: john, i love that movie. >> that means more to me than anything in the world. chris: if anybody doesn't watch this movie you're crazy. it's wonderful. julianne moore is sarah palin and woody harrelson is the role of the century. when we come back, four years after sarah palin and hillary clinton, of course, republicans are infuriating women out there. no wonder women wonder, what gives with these guys? plus, scoops and predictions. be right back. chris: welcome back. one every the time warps these days is watching republicans ignore the fact that women vote and are the majority voters. that warp is even stranger when you compare it to four years ago. with hillary clinton coming so close to winning the democratic nomination and palin being the first woman on the republican ticket in history. this was hillary's iconic speech as she ended her campaign. >> tall though we weren't able to shatter that highest, hardest glass ceiling this time, thanks to you, it's got about 18

the company appointing former morgan stanley ceo john mack as a senior adviser.esting move anyone thenone weiss. >> it's interesting. murph came on last week. he was buying it in a realtime trade. he likes it. here's what's interesting. from a kkr standpoint and from private equity standpoint, they see value in financial stocks. when you bring on a guy like john mack and you're a private equity firm, you're saying there are lots of assets there for us to go out and buy so the sector's got to be looking pretty good going forward. >> okay. let's talk about nat gas here. futures are trading at their lowest level since february of 2002. the move has huge implications for utilities, transports, and renewables. not to mention our country's energy independence. going to get to all that with the traders. first, let's find out what's behind this breakdown today with a "fast money" contributor, who joins us from the heart of the action in the pits. what's going on in. >> hey, judge. we've seen an absolute collapse like you said in the nat gas. right now there's no reason f

. >> i think if it is specific to a genre, like an action john mack, i can totally understand. -- action chandra, i can totally understand. when it comes to check for leaks, i think women can do it beautifully. >> opinion appears split. >> i think women should be doing voice overs. i think it would be appealing. >> guys do it better. >> a lot of people would disagree. >> oh well. >> science has been used to justify excluding women from the business. a study revealed that while both men and women liked listening to female voices, they trust a male voice more. many believe a woman's voice can do the job, but they do not believe change will come. >> i think women have it at the doorstep to do trailer voices. >> but it is still a man's world. >> is still a man's world. >> any changes likely to be incremental. in the meantime, we will have to make do with the rich baritone beckoning us to future attractions. tom bruck, bbc news, los angeles. >> and that brings today's show to a close. remember, you can find constant updates on our website. to see what we're working on at any time, visit our f

john mack headed up investment bank morgan stanley during the credit crisis, leaving last year. he is now a senior advisor to private equity firm kkr. shares of kkr fought the weak tape for the financial sector, rising more than 1% to a six week high. we mentioned homebuilders earlier. they also fought the weak tone in the market, even though the latest national home price data continue showing weaker prices. homebuilder lennar helped its stock sector by reporting earnings twice as much as wall street anticipated. a key sign of strength, new orders for homes, jumped more than 30%, leading the company to say it sees a real recovery in housing. still, lennar's c.e.o. calls the recovery erratic, but notes the builder is able to raise prices while reducing its inventory of unsold homes. with today's 4.7% rally, lennar stock is at its highest price since the summer of 2007. more analysis of lennar's stock chart under the "blogs" tab at nbr.com. other builder stocks caught bids off the lennar optimism. ryland was up 4%, pulte rallied 3%, and d.r. horton finished up 2%. energy shares w

. >> host: that includes john mack be? bill but he is the founder of dole food and writes about capitalism as a moral argument to have the moral high ground to say they can decide hot days decide how to live their lives it is a very moral argument to make. >> host: what is to dance for liberty? >> 51c3 nonprofit a network of support and resources for student groups all over the world and all over the united states to promote the idea of liberty on their college campus. >> host: when was it founded? >> 2008 by a group of young interns in the washington d.c. area. who have roundtable discussion to promote liberty on campus. then decided to have another meeting but then they formed as an organization in. >> we are on over 700 student groups in our network all over the world. >> host: your second compilation? >> guest: yes. that we have put together in partnership with the atlas society. >> host: the ayn rand society? >> guest: the at less society. >> host: may again roberts when of a

and now john mack looking for his next post in life and this is the next post.hem with deals and some other things. so a little bit of interesting news, what's going on there. >> a look at the futures, see what we can expect when the opening bell rings this morning. after a nice day yesterday, futures were indicated a little bit higher this morning, up somewhere around 30 points, 36 now, 35 points. we're going to watch the shares of apollo group today. they best estimates with its latest result but is warning of a slowdown in student enrollment and that erased an initial after-hours gain. you can see what happened late yesterday. as we head to break, tim tebow is excited. 44 times. >> i'm so excited about being a jet. so excited about meeting my teammates and i'm very, very excited. so i was really excited about that. all right, i'm excited. i was excited about it and that would be exciting for me. i'm excited to be a jet and i'm excited to be here. i'm excited to be a jet. i think the exciting thing is i'm just excited. he was excited and he was excited about w

guest: nearly 100, and very many of them will be household names, starting with john mack and ernie, jimmy diamond will be -- -- jamie diamond will be there. it is really a stellar turnout. the president was last with the round table two years ago. he came in 2009 and 2010. this will be an opportunity that he will have. we meet four times a year, so in june you'd expect maybe to have the republican nominee there. we have tried to get everybody in the past year, both leader reid and speaker boehner -- one of the more impressive sessions with swift chairman ben bernanke at our last meeting. he took a lot of questions -- was with chairman ben bernanke and our last meeting. he took a lot of questions. this is only my fifth meeting of the round table. our ceo's really care about this country. they have been through a challenging time because there are a lot of things aimed at the ceo's as if somehow they personally did something that changed the economy. there's no question, when you look at the complexity of the economic system, there's no question there's a big global set of factors out

john mack gau the first administrator of tsa and ralph bash some who worked closely and jim loy cameand dhs and david stone and kip hawley, the next three administrators. also on the list is our current deputy administrator who is seated here who was also there at the start. just one of a handful of public servants give the urgent task of standing up a new security agency whose sweeping mission has always been to protect our nation's transportation systems, to insure the freedom of movement for people and commerce. i would also note that gail served for 18 months as the acting administrator before my arrival and the american people are more secure because of her outstanding service. so at its core, the concept of risk-based security demonstrates a progress of work tsa has been doing throughout its first decade of service to the american people. it's an understanding, really an acknowledgement, that we are not in the business of eliminating all risk associated with traveling from point a to point b. risk is inhernlt in virtually everything we do. our objective is to mitigate risk, to

when i joined the senate, you had mark hatfield of oregon and mack mathias of maryland, and john chafee of rhode island. the republican caucus was filled and we crossed the aisle and talked. it was so much better. that's why i wrote this book. i wrote the book to tell the american people what happens in the american caucus, what happens in the democratic caucus. and it's very similar. the conversations are very similar, except the democrats are way off to the left, and the republicans are way off to the right. and most of america is in the center. and if the electorate is informed and motivated, coming back to senator murkowski, we can turn this country around. >> part of the budget debate is do we cut spending and raise taxes at the same time. this is a tweet from rick who wants to know, senator specter, why didn't the economy tank after president clinton raised taxes? >> why didn't the economy -- >> tank, after president clinton raised taxes. >> well, because of the economic cycle was with him. the raising of taxes was one factor, but there were a lot of other factors, the cyclical on

mack. check this out. wow. wizards down five. john wall beats the buzzer. yeah. wall went for 24 points.tied at 78. fourth quarter now, wizards up six. wall forces a turnover, javal. jordon crawford, he pumped in a game-high 31 points. bring on the streamers. the wizards win 101-98. their first viblgt rio since valentine's day. washington now 8-28. big congratulations to the team. back-to-back champs. and the wizards win one. >> and they get streamers. >> and possible on monday. >> yeah, but i wouldn't plan on naming the snowmen just yet. >> that's our news for tonight, saturday night live with lindsey lohan up next. have a great night. the word is swapportunity. can i have the definition? swapportunity: the opportunity to swap a higher calorie snack for a yoplait light. can you use it in a sentence? mmm. swapping a 300 calorie donut for this 110 calorie strawberry shortcake is a good swapportunity. that's not a real word. oh haha it's real. [ female announcer ] delicious, creamy, yoplait light. over 30 flavors each around 100 calories. do the swap today. ♪ >>> welcome to "fox report." [

mack is still a huggies enthusiast. yes, sometimes businesses, like babies, just need a change. john. >> and we couldn't resist a "made in america" footnote to this story. did you know that the disposable diaper was invented by a connecticut housewife who could not take it anymore? mother of two. she was inspired to carve up her shower curtain. turned it into a reusable diaper cover. and then, crafted the final one from parachute cloth and sold that paten for a million dollars. >>> we thank you for watching tonight. we're always here at abcnews.com. "nightline" will be here later. and we hope to see you right back here again tomorrow night. have a great night. >>> storm number one, day number two. >> i was like what the heck? this is the whole hillside coming down? >> trees are down, roadways are flooded and driving, treacherous. the bay area coping with the last blast of winter. >> i'm ready to go home and bake cookie autos sounds nice. >> good evening, i'm dan ash lie we seem to be in a lull now. storm number one moves out and storm two moves in. the rain has been very welcome news

mack is still a huggies s enthusiast. yes, sometimes businesses, like babies, just need a change. john. >>> and we couldn't resist a "made in america" footnote to this story. did you know that the disposable diaper was invented by a connecticut housewife who could not take it anymore. mother of two. she was inspired to carve up her shower curtain. turned it into a reusable diaper cover. and crafted the final one from parachute cloth and sold that patent for a million dollars. >>> we thank you for watching tonight. we're always here at abcnews.com. "nightline" will be here later. and we hope to see you right back here again tomorrow night. have a great night. ♪ beth! hi! looking good. you've lost some weight. thanks. you noticed. these clothes are too big, so i'm donating them. [ female announcer ] people who choose more whole grain tend to weigh less than those who don't. multi-grain cheerios -- 5 whole grains, 110 calories. creamy, dreamy peanut butteuttaste

mack trying to make something happen. no good. look who's there to clean up the mess. kevin seraphin. what are you doing young man? how about the johndance. everybody celebrating. wall only had four, but his teammates stepped up beating the lakers 106-101. what a game that was there. >>> big east tournament. look who was there. former georgetown great jeff green still recovering. doing well. taking on pittsburgh first half. henry simms up and under. tough layup there. simms with 20 points, 13 rebounds, and five assists. that was some simsanity. so you have the senior stepping up and the freshman playing great as well. porter puts hoyas up by eight. then simms feeding the super freshman. otto goes for 20. great pass from simms there. georgetown down to pitt. hoyas play cincinnati tomorrow at 2:30. >>> peyton map bing and the colts have officially parted ways. the colts cut him. saving $28 million and setting off one of the most highly anticipated free agent frenzies in nhl history. the redskins will pursue peyton including six other teams including the jets, dolphins, broncos, and seahawks. he is already 36 years old. he missed all o

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mack by 8. 24-36. brown is up ten against josh mandel, 40-36. in nebraska not looking good for kerrey in the race against john bruning. it looks like a good pickup opportunity for the republicans. we'll be right back. >>> welcome back to "hardball" and a lighter topic. we've got our hardball strategists here tonight to tackle two issues for the republicans running for president right now. romney has an image problem, don't you think? this week it came out that his california home that he's building will have an elevator in it, which is pretty ritzy to begin with, but this elevator is for cars. he even has his own lobbyist out to expand massively the footprint of his house. plus romney is making jokes about how his dad -- ha, ha, ha, ha, ha -- closed down a factory in michigan. isn't that a hoot? topic number 2 in his section, it may be the last session where he can prove he's over it. one of them is going to zoos, one is goes to bowling alleys. to start off with, we go to mcmann for the easy opportunity, easy picking. this guy has designed a house which includes an elevator for cars. now, i'm not sure what you use an

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