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that's why we're here today, becky.vernment will be issuing another, you know, give it a yawn now, but if you think about it a year ago, two years ago, $42 billion of five-year notes. the market has taken these down well. it took down the two-year pretty well yesterday. at about a 3% bid to cover. and we're looking, how does the government go about placing all of this paper out there? what's the appetite like? and what are guys like jeffries primary dealers doing. i just want to make one note. i don't know if you got a chance to talk about this earlier, roubini said something positive. >> what? >> yes, can you believe it? no single u.s. state has the financial vulnerability seen in greece. and he goes through a whole mathematic cal thing looking at individual u.s. dates versus greece. the title of that report is no greece, the country in the u.s. machine, at least for now. so how do you mark the day and time roubini seemed to say something positive about the united states. >> he backtracked. for a while, he said i don't

news on the corporate blog and you can imagine that's getting a lot of refresh hits this morning, becky, carl, guys, we're expecting some kind of decision today, at least today, possibly this week. >> jim, thank you very much. >> i'm here, too, jim. nice to see you. >> i didn't see you there, joe. >> he was supposed to toss back to me, but he looked at the prompter and he tossed to carl. >>> you got under his skin. >> i can't win with joe. >>> the google news on any other day would be a lead for us. but the health care vote obviously the lead today, getting votes it needed to pass, not without plenty of debate and

becky joins us with key details. hello, becky. >> reporter: larry, right now the economy is an innext point and everyone is trying to figure out what comes next. experts are saying maybe it's a double dip and others say maybe we're talking about a quick snap-back. warren buffett is in a unique position so offer commentary on where the economy is. there are may jeer stake holdings in companies like american express, wells fargo, coca-cola, proctor & gamble and he said right now we've made it through the worst of the economy but don't expect a quick snap-back just yet. >> we got passed pearl harbor but we'll win the war and it's going slightly our way at the present time. but the spillover from the financial panic into the real economy was huge. and i would say that, if anything, it's getting better but at a very, very slow rate. >> reporter: when it comes to jobs, he says washington does not have a lot of options just in terms of what they might be able to do to create more jobs in an effective manner but he has criti

there's a lot of cross currents here, becky, you know.we're importing less, that means we're sending less money to china and other places, and yet, we're going to have to recycle larger and larger treasury debt. it's going to be a tough outlook. let's see what happens when the quarter ends. >> yeah, i guess the quarter ending, people are wondering if it's just the japanese waiting until their fiscal year is over. >> yeah, i think there's a lot of people waiting. we found $136 billion come out of money market funds and virtually every penny wound up in the bond markets. so, there's a lot of confusion as to where things are going here, and that's why the volume remains low, even though we've kind of had a nice move to the up side. >> all right, art, thank you. have a wonderful weekend. >> i'll be marinating ice cubes and thinking of you, becky. >> all right, cheers. >> thank you. >> that's nice, becky. >> that is nice. >>> next, we'll have the "stock of the day." "squawk box" will be right back. natural gas is a cleaner burning fuel, yet a

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hi, becky. >> good morning, louisa. we're going to talk about a lot of things today, but our first focus is the china challenge. google's showdown with beijing over censorship is causing great concern back in washington. representative sandra levin will talk to us today before the hearing on this matter. levin is also the new chairman of the house and ways means committee. also, jon corzine has a new job. he's going to head up mf global and he is talking to us at 7:00 a.m. eastern time. jon corzine, before he was governor of new jersey, before he was senator of new jersey was the head of goldman sachs. so he's getting back to his roots with a financial company. >>> also, president obama signed the health care bill into law yesterday. texas senator greg abbot will tell us why he thinks the law is unconstitutional. all that plus we've got breaking economic news, orders for durable goods is coming up at 8:30 a.m. eastern time. "squawk box" is coming up at the top of the hour and i got criticized the other day for wearing p

thank you, becky. >> it was good. sure. >> he did very good. ahead of today's trading, ben lichtenstein, president of tradersaudio.com joins us again from the cme. what do you think it's going to be like, brief into eu politics? >> yeah. well, there's a couple i think. we're looking into any developing news from greece and the situation developing there. i also think that we're focused on the gdp data scheduled for release this morning, in addition to a couple of key textual levels to the down side. we're talking about roughly where we're trading right now in the s&ps. down to about that 50 level in the s&ps. >> quickly, president obama announcing a big housing bailout plan. what are you listening there for specifically? it's coming out at 10:00 in the morning. >> i think just the details. for the most part, we're pretty aware of what he's going to talk about. i think, again, he's just addressing some of the issues that we're dealing with right now in terms of how the first time around didn't really help out a lot of the foreclosures in effect

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and skyping from oakland, our technology contributor, becky worley. good morning, becky. parry, this is something we're seeing on the rise right now. >> absolutely. people are share ing informatio about where they are and how long they will be there. we tell kids not to share their information online. but apparently adults are forgetting the advice. >> tmi. too much information. you said there are three things we can do to protect our identities online better. >> you're on facebook. so is everybody else in the world. 400 million people. use privacy settings. lock out people you don't want. and as facebook said, choose your friends selectively. you're also going to make sure you don't share information you don't want to get out there, even with people who are your friends. you should google yourself or bing yourself or facebook yourself, to make sure you know what's out there about you. if you're not careful abt what you're sharing, you're not going to be able to control information that other people have about you. >> if you don't know how to do it, ask a 13-year-old. the

he and his wife becky, we've been friends for a long, long time. when i came to washington, i knew two people. i knew frank donatelli, and i knew my husband. i married ron. and frank has just been a dear, close friend ever since. now, he's the only man on the board. he's not a token. he's very well qualified for that position. and he loves being on the board with a lot of women leaders. he does a great job. he has a really good knowledge, not only of policy, but of the mechanics of non-profit governance, which in this day and age with all the government agencies squeezing down on non- profits, he's a wonderful, wonderful person to have on our board - and as i said, my oldest friend here in washington, d.c., longest friend. >> go back to the beginning, though. i noticed that you met ron robinson, your husband, after - well, at the time you were young americans for freedom. >> yes. >> and your husband now runs american - young america's -- >> foundation. >> foundation. >> right. >> explain all that. what was this - where did you meet? where did you m

becky is joining us from beavercreek, ohio.r: i appreciate being able to watch the parliamentary debates on c-span. i really liked your system that your leader is on the floor with representatives. they have conversations and arguments. i like it. i wanted to ask about the top issues. could you define the top issues for the voters? you know, what they are really concerned about. and how does the iraq, you know, the unnecessary and immoral invasion of iraq by the u.s. and the u.k. and play into your elections? and i have a friend who has been in iraq, since before the invasion and many times since. there were reports about of a grave in 2003. she says conditions in iraq are far worse than before we illegally invaded. how does that play into your elections? and does "sky news" play into anything about how of things are displayed? guest: i have to say, as here, really, the number-one issue in britain in this election is the economy. we were hit very badly by the credit crunch. we have probably more of a level of indebtedness then

good morning, becky. caller: thank you for taking my call.i have a major issue with an individual mandate coming down from the federal government that i must buy a product. i also have concerns about the overall bill within the next 10 to 20 years. i do not think the cbo has agreed on the cost. it also concerns me in terms of the debt for the nation. host: anything you want to respond to there? guest: the cbo is an agency that can only score a bill based on how the authors say they will implement it. i think what we will find out is many of the cut that were proposed to pay for this one will not be made it is a fact. it is $540 -- $540 million from medicare. these fees and increases are over $500 billion. when we taxed in medical device, then that tax will be passed through by whoever uses that device. . . half host: other news from the papers. this from "politico," and the meeting between the israeli prime minister and president obama last night. "after the meeting, deafening silence. the administration shifted from red hot anchor with benja