neil: if you are barack obma, you will look at the sensei of wall street has a problem with me, it has a funny way of showing it. what do you make of that? >> yes, i am sure. i am plenty convinced that president obama and his team will try to take full credit for this. inflation was not taken into account during neocommunist that i can't help but look at the situation with all these announced mergers and think what it could be that president obama and his team realized that they can't get to their spending nirvana without getting is economy growing. and the economy is hobbling along, even if slow runners can across the finish line. neil: we may be bac to levels of the market where we were five years ago. but it has been a steady climb back to worst -- excuse me, from the worse. net net, is a good barack obama? >> yes, i am for it. we are all investors. we all want to see this thing improve. i agree with bob that economics is about choices. neil: i do buy your argument about the slowly inching back economy here. not in the gangbuster fashion, but enough to compel money that has been ner

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