scott: you can look for some of the publicly traded companies, but if you happen to know a cargill, ik that would be something that i would rather invest in than the other ones that we've talked about earlier. alan: smithfield got taken off... we've got hormel, oscar meyer is part of kraft... i think that has more potential looking at it from a trading standpoint. from a technical standpoint, you can see a 50%... if you lean on 50-- you can see a nice healthy move in kraft. they've got a lot of brands, but bacon-- they don't even trad it in the pits anymore. so you can't just singularly target bacon and i was looking at one company that makes smart bacon which is not even really bacon. so it is hard to figure this one out. angie: topic number three: i'm lovin' it. mcdonald's is going romantic this year by offering a valentines experience that includes waiters and candles on the table-- maybe even some flowers. would you buy the stock? scott: i would number one because i think the economy is not doing very well and mcdonald's will outperform in a down economy. number two is that if thi

they hired him from cargile group.gile is a private equity. >> he said he left over $100 million on the table. >> over $100 million on the table. and he had been a ceo previously. this is the price of loyalty. when you're in a company that long -- >> you don't get paid as much -- >> and by the way, he's getting paid as a consultant right now, which is more than her total package. >> his price, his pay as a senior adviser to gm now is higher, but he is an interim adviser, he's being paid on a pro rated basis. we really don't know -- >> there's no -- basis -- >> there are two stories here. the first is just an issue aside from this particular case, which is that -- [ all talking at once ] >> give me one second. women do get paid less just in a general sense. >> that's a misleading statistic. >> there are some things involved in it -- i'm saying in general, that's not even in cases or some cases where women and men do the same work, that's where it becomes a moral issue, it's a huge problem. on the other side, i must say

few months, 1,800 feet below ground in cleveland, ohio, a small group of 100 workers or so at the cargillraising it. >> this has been a great winter. you can't top this one. >> reporter: you may be one of the few people in america who has loved this weather. >> there ain't too many out there. >> reporter: men like david diaz a mechanic at the mine and maintenance supervisor p.j. king. >> it's a good thing, you know. we always say, let it snow, let it snow, let it snow. >> reporter: with demand for road salt spiking in the states and two canadian provinces they supply, the cleveland mine is running three shift as day, seven days a week, to keep the salt sprerds filled. blasting, load, hauling, dumping, and processing 16,000 tons of salt a day. and it all comes through here. >> pretty much a steady stream like that around the clock. >> reporter: mine manager steven horn has been in the business for 25 years and has never seen demand like this. >> we haven't been hand to mouth yet but we have seen our inventories deplenish rapidly. >> reporter: here directly under lake erie, these men are re

my producer, stephanie cargill, who's been in this location every day says she thinks this crowd is even to come out, craig, as these games get more into the action. >> sounds good. chris jansing for us live in sochi, our thanks, as always. and a reminder, full coverage of the sochi olympic games continues all day on nbc, msnbc and the full family of nbc channels. >>> coming up, a top nfl prospect who's come out and what michael sam could mean for pro football. hey guys! sorry we're late. did you run into traffic? no, just had to stop by the house to grab a few things. you stopped by the house? uh-huh. yea. alright, whenever you get your stuff, run upstairs, get cleaned up for dinner. you leave the house in good shape? yea. yea, of course. ♪ [ sportscaster talking on tv ] last-second field go-- yea, sure ya did. [ male announcer ] introducing at&t digital life. personalized home security and automation. get professionally monitored security for just $29.99 a month. with limited availability in select markets. ♪ it's not the "juggle a bunch of rotating categories" card. it's not the "sign

because the cargill has realized the wealthy chinese buyers can almost no spending limit the jack the prices up further. the retrievers years the manufacturers to make more than a hundred twenty thousand dollars in profit and killing one car to a chinese retailers. to put up with that strategy for china the other four brand making double their profits per car in china when compared to the us and europe. by contrast the american magazine consumer reports has given catholic model and began reading of ninety nine out of the hundred. with its high performance reviews they could check the prices too. the company working with cutting edge technology and big ideal. in other intention the landmark that call they're basically calling it stupid idiot for not ripping off customers in china. yet a quote i don't think ripping off customers. he's a good long term strategy. nina to show their concern for template and it's pretty pricey strategy. one row china the country full of uber rich people. all of them are still the entrenched in your business and why wouldn't you lift him up they're buying lu

the likes of chemical wal-mart cargill and while the administration likes to claim that there are public interests and environmental labor groups less than nine percent of the members of the system. are to represent in any environmental developments labor or other public interest groups and so it's a really it's a really status is the most i should mention most of those public interest groups i just mentioned environmental labor political and otherwise are really closer to just two of the twenty committees on the system while there are sixteen sixteen committees that are exclusively industry interests devoted in their interest and so really you know what this proposal is is to create just one more committee one we've got one committee for the entire public interest. and you know there's there's committees in there there's a committee devoted just to chemicals there's a committee devoted just to the pharmaceutical corporations that would like greater monopoly patent protections in the tepee p.d. . and there's even a committee just for aerospace equipment and we get just one equipment now

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it means when we tackle a famine in somalia, we're able to reach out to our partners at cargill, and they have -- as they did -- the capacity to redirect a $7 million shipment of rice and put it quickly into the somali economy so it can get to famine-affected areas, we can be more responsive and save more lives. and it means that we partner with our colleagues at google to do everything from mapping communities around lahore so that we can do a better job of finding and vaccinating young kids to helping to invest in entrepreneurs, creating new businesses to tackle l extreme poverty and make a living for themselves by using private means. we've now sent a field, a cadre of field investment officers to our missions around the world. and these are folks who i think it's the only time in the foreign service we've had that clone of officer. what it allows us to do is to identify private investment opportunities and connect those investment opportunities to partners and investors here in the united states and around the world. so we're bolstering our traditional aid programs by in the last

. >> for demand spike, cargill is producings 15,000 to 16,000 tons of salt a day. salt a day. and it all comes through here. >> pretty much a steady stream like that around the clock. >> reporter: steve horn is in charge of the entire operation here. 15,000 to 16,000 tons of sault a day. sounds like a lot of salt. >> reporter: is it enough to meet the demand? >> we're keeping up. we've seen our inventories deplenish rapidly. >> reporter: and replenishing the stockpiles is allowing these miners to salt away cold hard cash. for "cbs this morning," i'm jim axelrod in cleveland. >>> wow, one of the big names in funds is kickstarter.com. in the past five years nearly 6 million people have pledged money. that's almost as much money to buy the new york knicks. we look at some of the newest highest innovations offered on kick starter. welcome. we might begin with kick starter and how it works. >> suppose i'm an inventor and i have a new product. or a play or a book. instead of trying to find someone, i say, fund me, public, and everyone kicks in 25 bucks, 50 bucks. they do