most people in benin live from farming. are scarce there, meaning the country is dependent on gasoline and diesel imports from neighboring nigeria. a large portion of the fuel is smuggled over the border and sold in bottles illegally along the road at much lower than market prices. raymond azokpota is concerned that entire families live from selling the smuggled goods. >> it's an enormous problem. there are always serious accidents. houses burn down and people get hurt. >> these plants could help resolve the country's energy shortage. villagers have planted jatropha bushes on 430 hectares of land, a plant native to tropical countries. many women from the cooperative work in the fields. two times a year, they harvest the seeds. >> up to now, we've made soap out of the seeds and use it to do our laundry. but in the future, we want to produce biofuels, too. >> this project is a real bonanza for our group. >> they're happy about the good harvest. raymond azokpota explains that jatropha is inedible, but the fruits' seeds yield a

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that's a fairly benine thing, 20%, but it's the shape and look of the ascent that precedes the drop that'sth that, let's look at epic tops and see how they also are quite correlated so let's go back to 1937. of course, we had the '29 crash and spent the most of the '30s coming off the lows but then we encountered trouble in '37. frankly in february, and we plunged basically 50% through to the end of the year. what's important, again, is the correlation with the current two years that we're in right now. it's about 90 plus%. take a look at a 68. in 1968, a very similar two-year trajectory just like the one we're in now and then the trouble started. in this case it was december of '68 and over the next 18 months, a little bit longer we dropped about 40%. now, let's lock at a 87, and it's -- it's the same thing. in fact, of those four or five periods that i've cited, the one that's the most correlated, running at a 96% correlation is this one, and if you just pokes the current two-year s&p against the two years preceding the crash in 5087, this is the overlay, and so does it have to play out

steve benin from the rachel madmaddow show and maria kumar, president and ceo of voter latino, a political contributor. great to have you here. now that we have you together in one place i want to play part of the interview getting a lot of attention. ree reince priebus agreed to appear on "morning joe" because he knew he would be treated fairly. take a look. >> i'm not going to have you moderate the republican debates in our primary. there is a difference. because you're not interested -- because you're not actually interested in the future of the republican party and our nominees. that's not a slam on you, mika. i have to choose moderators that are actually interested in the republican party and our nominees. it's not going to be nbc if they continue to go forward with this miniseries. >> all right. reince priebus speaking to mika. said he agreed to appear on the program because it was fair but then said mika wasn't fair and he would never pick her to be a moderator because she doesn't want to see the best interesting -- it was mind-blowing. how telling is that statement that reens appea

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