the s&p 500 has closed at a new record high as all three index posted gains today. president obama said the u.s. economy is right on track, especially with energy. >> on energy, we have seen a revolution that is changing not just the economy but also changing geopolitics. not only is oil and gas production up because of technological changes that have taken place, but we've also doubled our production of clean energy. >> oil futures up after the selloff. diane feinstein wants the faa to tighten restrictions on drone pilots. in a letter, she said recent reports of close calls between drones and commercial planes are alarming. they are proposing criminal penalties. more reason for disney shareholders to smile. they are boosting the annual dividend by 34%, $1.15 a share. disney stock hovering around an all-time high posting record revenue and profit in the last fiscal year thanks to hits like "frozen" and "guardians of the galaxy." and raising $500 million to start a second fund to invest in early growth tech companies. they were oversubscribed three times. the first fund included oculus vr salesforce. par

the s&p 500 has closed at a new record high as all three index posted gains today. president obama said the u.s. economyght on track, especially with energy. >> on energy, we have seen a revolution that is changing not just the economy but also changing geopolitics. not only is oil and gas production up because of

s norquest wants credit. nice try. causation doesn't mean correlation. the economy has surged in spite of the republicans admission to strangle president obama's growth policiesoss the board. economists agree, stimulus package boasted the market housing, corporate, stock markets, obamacare, it's working. republicans are running around saying drill, baby, drill. we did that. we've been doing all kinds of drilling and i haven't heard the republicans complain when the latest oil prices out there. in fact it is causing putin, our adversary a lot of problems. president obama's economy broke records in 2014. i think the economy is the biggest story of 2014. what do we have to look forward to? well if we go back into our archive and look at the last couple months this is what we have to look forward to. republicans, and it is all over talk radio even in the mid-west well it's corporate tax rates. we have corporations paying more taxes then anyone else on the face of the earth. really? after all the write offs and after they park billions of dollars off shore the tax rate is about 17%. go look at mitt romney's return. and then of course keystone at a time we're tryin

s&p up three, the nasdaq up 11 points. volume on the big board 3.411 billion. the nasdaq down. the economy having 321,000 jobs, unemployment holding steady at 5.8% and president obamang that jobs report. >> last month america's businesses created more than 300,000 jobs. this keeps pace so far this year that we have not seen since the 1990s. lou: he had to think about those numbers. this comes just days after the national debt surpassed $18 trillion. he didn't mention that. and a new report showing china has overtaken the united states as the biggest economy in the world in terms of goods and services. joining us now is ben mandel, an economist for city research. the president didn't seem excited about the jobs report. i mean come everything he talks about, he sounds so dour. i don't understand it. >> it's safe to say that the glass half-full has arrived at the party insofar as labor market. this economy has been struggling to have more than 200,000 jobs per month over the course of the past five years of this economic recovery. lou: but it has done so for the past 10 months. >> exactly. this is a good indication that maybe this time is different in the sense that m

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s. one of the contributions of barack obama is that he has set up an interesting experiment. government activism as a stimulus and the reagan model of unleashing the supply side of the economy in private business is an important point that we have to hammer home because this lesson has to be learned -- it will never be learned by academics but the american people are starting to understand where it let me give you an amazing statistic. ronald reagan came in with a period of economic crisis. barack obama came into office during great economic crisis, no question. the amazing thing is you know they used diametrically opposite approaches to dealing with the crisis. as you just said, reagan cut tax rates and deregulated and got government spending under control and let the private businesses rebuild our economy. there was an $870 billion stimulus plan with this so-called multiplier effect and we had obamacare and tax increases on the rich. barack obama has party much thrown the entire keynesian playbook at the situation. if you compare the records of these two presidents, this dress -- drives people on the left crazy, they hate this comparison but is very apt -- in the five and a