on asht in greeley brendan greeley on facebook. > -- brendan greeley on facebook. >> maybe it is nota. maybe next year it will be all about bitcoins. >> pending home cells number at 10:00 a.m. >> good morning, everyone. "bloomberg surveillance." big news -- look for bloomberg television on apple tv. i'm tom keene. with us, scarlet fu and cristina alesci. our guest host this hours brendan greeley of "bloomberg businessweek." >> did you watch any football games? >> tom wachtel like -- tom watched 14. blacklike money -- monday. for tv advertisers, time to check out the checkbooks. live nfl games accounted for nine of the 10 most-watched telecast of 2013. the oscars is the exception there. attorney for madison square garden with years of espn programming there. welcome. the tv viewing expense of nfl games is so great. people say it is better than going to live games. does it threaten the sport of football as a result? >> i don't think it. it is too powerful. they are trying to make the experience in the stadium better so that is something to watch for the next couple years. it is the gri

this is how greeley saw things here at ms since coming northerners who embrace grants term set to the south, we don't want to inflict punishment. we want you to change in confederates responded to demands for change with a form of punishment. this contest over the surrenders meany did not simply pick this up again the north or even the confederacy against the union. instead, it pitted those who have a thorough transformation of the south against those who rejected such transformation. here we have the theme of divisions within each side. the north-south conservatives, peace democrats copperheads were loathed for their political rival of the republican party of lincoln to treat the surrenders of vindication and mandate. these democrats rallied behind the confederate interpretation of appomattox. in their valor, endurance and skill to copperhead neoprobe insisted southerners were equal to the north to the confederacy was subdued by overwhelming numbers. here's lee's interpretation lock stock and barrel. the south to is divided. by southern unionists opposed confederacy during the war ra

. >> do you think greeley did peace r greenpeace runs that ad in china or brazil? >> i bet they laugh and throw them out of a window. i want to move on. that was a stupid way to celebrate christmas. here's a nice way to honor christmas. these are the guys of "duck dynasty." they're on a uso tour singing with general dempsey. here they are. i am not much more christmas carols or sing-alongs, but this is probably a better way, eric, of feeling with the holidays. >> these guys are absolutely on fire. you know why? they're good people. they can stand up, they can say their prayer at the end of the show, which i believe -- is it still in? i hope it's still in. >> yeah. >> look, they're just good, down-to-earth, solid quality people, and it's fantastic. i love what they're doing. >> the reason why i bring this up, it's a contrast from greenpeace. greenpeace are environmental activists. these are actual environmentalists because they live in the environment. if they kill something in order for that to survive, they have to raise more of them. so they know more about wildl

john hay, he was working at the "new york tribune" under horace greeley, and they formed their own splinter republican party called the liberal republican party, and ran against grant. so, and hay was very merciless towards grant and all the editorials. but it didn't really matter. grant -- hay, who felt he was sort of a conscious of republicanism from lincoln all the way through to the roosevelt administration, never forgave grant for the sullying of the republican image that he thought had been established by of course is great mentor. i mean, is great president, abraham lincoln. >> i will ask bill how he would respond to the. something she mentioned earlier, grants effort to defend native american rights, civil rights, albeit for a different approach than hay would've preferred. >> john hit the critical part. the republican party was born in two different intellectual strength. one was anti-slavery and the other one was pro-movement. if you want to you can call one is the conscious wing of the party and the corporate wing of the party. as long as they were in opposition as often happens,

you look at places like houston, greeley, colorado, fargo, north dakota, bismarck, can you look at williamsportsylvania. so there's a big energy story here, but there's also the technology story. look at eight of the top ten best performing cities have educational attainment above the u.s. average. so austin, texas, number one. you go to provo, utah. san francisco. san jose. seattle. salt lake city. you see the story here. these are technology hubs that have the skilled labor force, but they also create jobs for low wage workers. >> it's well said. and ross, i think you just made directly or indirectly the single best argument for staying in school. we still have about 3 million kids every year who are dropping out of high school. ross duvall, thank you very much. >> you wanted to stay in the basin just to drive the trucks. >> you know that midland, texas, now has the single highest per capita income of any zip code in the united states? more than greenwich, connecticut? >> i'm not surprised. >> more than the boys in 90210, melrose, andrew shue. it's midland, texas, number one. >> i want to see