[imitates zsa zsa gvbor] -- gabor] everybody was like, tracey, oh, my d, i am loong forloves.interesting. isn't great? tavis: i'm just laughing, because that is what she says when she is sittingere. >> that is right shes greek, you know. tavis: i wastrying to ask, talking about americand our celeity oession, how would yr comedy, beingere all ese years, how would your comedy be diffent if you were dng this in england? hmm. tavis: i don't mean owtime. >> it is interesng. i am about to be gen a back to lifete achievement awar charlie chaplin award. tavis: there y go. >you cannot do that i england. in england, we are so self- deprecating. aritish comedy is still based on that. he is a loser. famous comedians, i is always about somebody whois pompous who do not realize he is an iot. you rember the wonderful pts that benny hl used do. it was wonderful roles for women. it is more self-depcating and cynic. but still go back and foh. i do not know. perhapi would be writing about a girl. i do t know. i am so eectic. i like to try to do som diffent things, travel, get out, do stuff. bein

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. >> suzanne: the fed is n the only one loong into the finaial crisis. congress has also t up a finaial crisis inquiry commission to investige the root cause rmer senator and florida governor bob graham isne of its ten members and heoins me now. senator, welme to the program. >> tnk you very much, suzan. i appreciaoining you in my home town wh my friend paul >> suzanne: ne to have you here. le me start with jus an plainer. the commissn has been set u examine many dierent are of the fincial crises. no do you view ts as a fact finding missio or wl there actually be remmendations that come out of it. >> both. we are directed byhe congress to do a thoroughxamination of the causes of e current fincial crises much likehe ficora mmission d in the 1930'snd then to make recommendations as ficora which leo the securities d exchan question. >>uzanne: that's my next question a lot of peoe are drawing parallels betweethis commission and the ficora commsion and out o that came some very sigficant financial form. now do youhink it's fair to draw those kd of parallels,

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t., we were loong at the impact on sll businesses if the c. i. t. can'come up with the fincing. but what wld be thempact on t financialystem? everybody always tks about systemic risk. what's theisk here? >> i think the digs purely on thatasis i thi was correct. c. i. t.does notresent a systemic risk to theinancial stem. u're going to have se hurtingretailers an one should reallyuestion whether this was the time in the econom cycle t makehis stand, if you will, on the too big to fail and systemic risk doctrine because you will haveconomic impas that will be negative. >> susie: thank u for coming on the program and sring your thougs with us, we apprecte it. >> thank y. >> sie: my guest tonight, moe orenbh,ank analyst at credit suse. >> paul: lavh executive pay packages left investors unhay as the financial crisis unfolded now the obama administrati nts to beef up shareholder int. thtreasury sent congress legislatn today that would let shareholde vote on executive pay. the votes woul't be binding and they wouldn't put a llar limits on saries. but,he new rules would give compensatio

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they're looking at oilervice names, they're loong at global tegrated names. i tell y what, on the refirs, today, i bought frontier, a refiner. i know everybody came inere and arted to talk about the negativity surrounding t refiners. it is pred forrmageddon, folks. it's a great hedge agast omic recovery. a hurricane. i like the refiners here. thbad news is in the prize. price. >> have to be worried that chron comes out and said the strong dollar is offsetting any ins it seen in oil. >> t refining margins. >> they are the biggest refiner -- >> the refining margins a quarr of tir earnings. >> ty're an integrated oil company. i agrewith you. it's intesting it's notable on that day. it down 3.5%. ey're talking about the falling doar overseas. they're the first of theuys to rert and the first of the guys to warn. so i do think we'll see something milar. it's a dferent balance sheet. i feel fine in exxon here. >> more than any o commodity. oil is a commoty that did it a visual tn. did it at $70. did it at $35. will do itgain for you. that being said, it hasn't swn

and what we're loong to find are companies that ha strong balance sets that we can withstand recessions, mpanies when they pay vidends can continue to pay it dung recession we wancompanies that are not involved with government arantees it or bailout because the vernment crowds them out. as a result, look very favourab on areasike heth care technolog, consumer staples companies. because th have this dynamic. we take a relavely dim view of financials because of the qonoing oblem. energys a all over the map but with a low energy pre many of these mpanies don't ha the earnings por they had in the past. and industrials ve a long way to g inrder to right themselves f credit coitions first and then expaion in the united states at so point ile anem for the foreseeable future. >>o joe, for investors who are listeng to what are you sang tonight and they have someoney on the se and they're wonderi what do with it, should they put new ney into thetock market nowr should they wait? >> ihink the right strategyeres to ideify these companies th that financial strength that i talked about. because the m

. >> going forward, can the rest of the world help the united states or is everyone loong inward at this point? >> you know, we really ought to be having a coordinated stimulus. but we're having enough trouble even getting a unilateral stimulus package. no, i don't -- >> is there any growth in the economy? >> oh, sure. look, industrial production is probably going to turn positive quite soon if it hasn't already. inventories are drawn down, there's going to be an inventory bounce. there's some signs. stuff is turning up. but none of it looks like enough to actually continue. >> all right, good to have you on the program. we so appreciate it. see you soon. paul krugman joining us. >>> coming up next on "the wall street journal report," what does your neighbor know about making money that maybe you don't? the inside secrets of self-made wealth. >>> once again, a new era for the isolated culture of north korea is (announcer) it is the most advanced automobile we have ever created. a car that can help awaken itsriver >>> the most advanced automobile we have ever created. a car that can help

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i'm loong old. you're getting owlier and nothing isappening. the kinds of thghts enter, it's not the ecomists lately. the estaished padigm they don't generally rresentthose kis of human emotions. i think part of what we're doing is influenced by psychology, by neoeconomists -- >>harlie: whatis neural mmission? >> i tnk that's exciting new branch which i am not- i am not a practitner of. trying to meld brain research with commission. we have to understand h the brain funions. they put people in a functional maetic resonance imaging device watch whas going o inside their bra -- >> chaie: when they're doing what? >> making ecomic decisions. and we -- >> charlie: like what? you make economic decision, buy this hem or not, whetr i trade this security not? >>let me gi you example. in swzerland, the had people play games with each othe econic games whi they were -- i don't rememberhe details exactly. there was a point in the game when some players swed vengeance t each other in other words, ey're not making a goo business decision, they're doing somet

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>> i have heard my opponentsts y that hwasn't actually loong forwarto her comingng to new jersey. so i don't k know that it will have a major impact. i thk psident obama's partnership with the state of new jersesey, which is differen than what we hadad when we hadd publican in the whihite use, will make a a diffence in how people feel w we can resve the economic trauma ththat our stat and o our nation arere going through. you know, this ression started in the fl of 2007, andrea, notot underr baracobama's with watch. ma of us, acacross the cocountr have bn struggling wth that recession becacause of failed economic policies. i think thee pubc is wisese enough to undnderstanhere the proboblem came fromom a it certnly wasn't a new jery problem. and theyave to struggle with it. we want to workk with our ptner in the white house to mke changeges that will help us get out of itit, get p people back work, make sure investments going forward and consumers are back in the mamarketpla. and i i think lot of those condnditionsre going on shington and we're suppting themem with oupolicies in ne

trusted esident medvedev to gotiate and stick to his agreents, there was none the gushiness, therwas no loongnto anye's souland deciding tey can work together they really emphasized this a businesslike relationship. tone was cordial but very business like. and these difference does remain. >> woodruff: anfinally tell ushat is on tap for tomorrow, the meeti with putin. > warner: well that's, of course, everyone is aiting tha eagerly. preside obama and prime minist pin who we slipped and lled president putin once today bere catching himself, i wou say what is reay important with the meetin with prime minister putin torrow is it will be the fir chance for president oama to take his mease of the man they've never t before. and i think th above all that's the most impornt thingbout that meeting. >>oodruff: margaret warner coering the summit for us in mosw. thanks. >> warner: anks, judy. >> lehrer: in otr news today, seen u.s. troops were killed i attacks across ahanistan. it washe deadliest day in nearly a year. six americanwere killed in rodside bombings in the north anin the south, near where u.

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