david stuart, george stuart's son, has been decoding maya glyphs since he was a boy. today, he is one of the world's leading epigraphers, scholars who decipher ancient texts. stuart: the decipherment process may begin with a single inscription or a single glyph in an inscription that will provide a really telling clue about what the phonetic value for the sign might be. to look at an example, there's an inscription from a site in northern yucatan that has a glyph that makes use of this sign that no one can read or could read before. and it's one of two signs in the spelling. the first one is one we actually know from landa's original alphabet, "ma." and here is our unknown sign. and we know from the glyphs around it that it's talking about a certain individual who is an artist. keach: together, these two glyphs form a word that describes an individual. it begins with the glyph on the left, "ma." in a mayan-spanish dictionary, stuart looks for mayan words that begin with "ma." stuart: and it turns out that "mats" means one who is knowledgeable or wise. and so "mats" se

stuart: the bills that come in the mail, david doyle can take care of them. in reason. >> right. stuart: david, it was great to have you with us today. absolute congratulations. >> thank you. stuart: you, sarah and all of those relatives. great to have you with us, sir. >> thank you. stuart: thank you very much indeed. time for the gold report. 9:50. here we go, what have we got. 1,727 per ounce. up this morning. you know it's the holiday season when atheists are arguing about christmas displays and last night on the o'reilly factor, bill o'reilly laid into an outspoken atheist and got heated, really. and carol roth and charles payne are here and more on the atheists. ♪ [ male announcer ] you are a business pro. monarch of marketing analysis. with the ability to impve roi through seo all by cob. and you...rent from national. because only national lets you choose any car in the aisle... and go. you can even take a full-size or above, and still pay the mid-size price. i'm going b-i-g. [ male announcer ] good choice business pro. good choice. go national. go like

stuart: last word, charles. charles: of course, davidflutie when people were popping marijuana, doobis rather. stuart: you forgot, it was puffing. charles: puffing, puffing doobies, more "varney & company" after the break. can't wait, can you? ss than t. that's right. i've learned the only way to get a holiday deal is to camp out. you know we've been open all night. is this a trick to get my spot? [ male announcer ] break from the holiday stress. save on ground shipping at fedex office. stuart: earlier on the program, we had a lively interview with a patriotic billionaire. he wants people above $250,000 a year to pay more in taxes. it was a lively interview. david has some point that he wants to tell you. >> i pay 50% of my income to taxes. i do not think i should have to pay that much. the president came out with his economic plan, it was called economic patriotism. am i on economic if i disagree? stuart: the word was probably used. charles: somehow the person achieving the american dream through extreme hard work, extreme sacrifice and

stuart: my colleagues, david asman, you are in there. stuart varney.overlook the fact that this is a good book. they think they know what is better for the people they love people themselves do. stuart: the subtitle, charles is theodore and would roll out american residents destroyed constitutional freedom. the judge is not here to defend himself or his book. we will say this for another day. >> what is the name of this book -- show again quixotic. stuart: varney and company. remember

liz: i agree with everything david said. stuart: still go with hope and change. sarcasm is a low form of which. what was that -- 3.0%, freddie mac, 30 mortgage rate three minutes ago. i have neglected. 3.40% very close to historic lows. let's get back to new at 10:00. harry reid is concerned about climate change. listen to this. >> climate change is an extremely important issue for me and i hope we can address it reasonably. something we have seen with these storms, overwhelming our country and the world and we need to do something about it. stuart: blaming hurricane sandy on global warming. liz: i agree there is climate change. the glaciers are melting, sea levels are rising. i'm not sure it is something we need to address -- do job creation first but this is an issue even conservatives have said this is happening. stuart: he is going to introduce cap and trade which is and of -- excellent former enhancement. [talking over each other] dave: they lost the debate when they had democrats in the senate and controlling the house of representatives. republicans still

david: don't miss any of the action tonight as polls close. join us for our extended coverage of election with our all-star team. stuart varney at 5:00 p.m. join neil cavuto on fox business when hopefully, hopefully the final returns come in. christine todd whitman is shaking her head. it will not be an early night? liz is back from the nasdaq. talking to ed lazear, former chairman of white house council of advisors. he said many folks are ignoring a important job statistictic. which one is it and how he sees the economy under a president romney if that happens. let's look how metals obama has performed since he was sworn in and as president and since the fed printed up almost 2.5 trillion in the era of quantitative easing. ♪ announcer: the smallest moments can have the biggest impact on a child's life. take time to be a dad today. learn more at fatherhood.gov. david: americans head to the voting booth today as we watch for polls to roll in. we have someone who says one outcome to current around his market outlook. liz: byron wein, blackstone advisory partners joins us in a fox business, exclusive. i'm thrilled you're here. you're a great

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david petraeus comes clean on benghazi, sort of. what was really going on? former pacific police commander with his fascinating theory tonight 7:00 eastern. stuartt hostess, the twinkie people says the baker's union forced the company into liquidation. the union workers blame bad management. tom, who killed the twinkie? tom: the union has a responsibility tot go and get as much as they can but not kill the golden goose, but the management whether it's general motors or whether it's hostess has a responsibility to not sign contracts and make promises they can't afford. i think it was a badly managed company. stuart: interesting. interesting. next case, black friday, one of wal-mart's biggest days of the year, now wal-mart is facing an employee uprising of sorts. a group that wants to unionize is trying to lead a protest against wal-mart on black friday, big day for retailers, day after thanksgiving. >> i think they had something to do with killing twinkies, i'm so mad at them, i can't believe they are trying to kill thanksgiving at wal-mart too, bad unions, they should have some turkey and get over it. stuart: the company says it is a very very s