enough global peter b. a c. was fully aware of weaknesses in their systems and weaknesses in their ability to control the transactions that corazon started doing he really pushed that company way beyond its core way beyond the kinds of things that it was really in business for but investing in sovereign debt and peter you see never raised any kind of concern about the weak internal controls or the we corporate governance corps and was trading on behalf of the company while also being chairman and c.e.o. and one supposed to be keeping an eye on everybody else now after the enron and world com scandals sarbanes oxley that was supposed to hold c.e.o.'s and c.f.o. as accountable why do you think we haven't seen more senior. or auditors of banks get charged with accounting fraud in the wake of this finance. well as many have written the prosecutors believe that charging individuals with accounting fraud is really really really hard it's much easier to take a general viewpoint and the corporation and say well let's lo

i believe from last year it was peter b. c o b w c s i k p m j i mean why not the law and choose not going to do that in what not to not be w.c. not all the same it's own big acronym you can just get rid of all those acronyms and replace with f r a you d.d. for all they're all the same they all collude they go to battles and they collude and they all work off each other's playbooks and it's fraud the fraud that they found from forensic asia by the way this is run by two guys named thomas monaco and andrew haskins thomas monaco is a former new york fed guy and actually enter haskins was an analyst at h.s.b.c. for fifteen years so what they found is they began its coverage of britain's largest banking group with a sell recommendation warning the lender had between sixty three point six billion dollars and ninety two point three billion dollars of questionable assets on its balance sheet ranging from loan loss reserves and accrued interest to deferred tax assets defined benefit pension schemes and opaque level three assets this

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peter to pay ball. they have for the money left. it make foss sense. i use the word assenine, yes. that's what this is. you can rick monetary. >> gary, b., you can respond. >> oh, i don't know whether it's assenine, i'm going with tracy this fact that we are spend sock much money that we don't have. that's and sasha is right, we should throw all the bugs out, start from scratch and elect all libertarians in my opinion. >> there we go. >> we are spending $400 billion less we don't have than a few years ago. houston had a $1.5 trillion discretionary bucket. now that is gong, it's not the old american budget. i think we can work through that. it's not that bad anywhere. >> okay, if that dn't get you fumed up. how about a push to hike the federal gas tax? >> that's what we have always done in america. >> we also account for the monies we spend. >> being account, neil. >> i wish you are right. >> i am right. >> okay. fine. >> all right, neil's gang is looking into where the $120 billion bucks we shell out every year to fix roads is actually going. that's at the bottom of the hour, but up here first, the administration hoping the magic of st

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b to football fans planning a trip to the big game. >> many people feel opportunistically they can make some money during that period. >> reporter: homeowner peter tishy is charging $1,000 per night to rent his home. that's $600 more than what he usually charges. >> the hotels and the hotels are going to be completely booked in this area. people just want to stay close to the stadium. and my house i believe is located perfect location. >> reporter: home away says they're seeing a 221% increase in home rentals in the region during the super bowl period. >> hotel prices have really gone through the roof for that small window of time. and so you see the same thing happening with home rental prices as well. >> reporter: this six-bedroom super bowl vacation dream home complete with a personal chef is going for $119,500 per week. tickets to the game not included. trip adviser estimates that fans staying in hotels within ten miles of the stadium can expect to pay more than $400 per night, that is if they can still find a room. >> a typical three or four-bedroom house might sleep up to six people. people also have a kitchen so they can save money on foo

peter. >> reporter: hey that's right. christie is signing the billowering tuition rat-- the b that lowers tuition rates for children of immigrantsthises a notch on his resume as he tries to become a different republican, a national figure to appeal to different con spisti s constituents. he won union city where we are majority hispanic city improving from his 2009 performance here. a lot of people are talking about how will this affect the 2016 presidential chances? the republican basis has a relationship with immigration reform. we saw rick perry who also sign standard dream act in texas was damaged in his primary bid in 2012. chris christie is trying to be a different republican. there are plenty of conservatives. rand paul, ted cruise, santorum possibly. chris christie is making bet i can be more moderate, appeal to a different kind of republican. there's a space for that in the primary. mitt romney who's the perceived moderate in 2012 almost won iowa. chris christie might be able to do that again in the state. he's going to sign the bill in a couple of hours. we'll be here. >> reporting live for us this morning, thanks so mu

peter hooper. okay? hess a chief economist and a manage b director at deutsche bank.n fighting scene with germany as a whole. if you follow many of his interviews from reuters to most recent on bloomberg what you will find is he's making comments like maybe we have to move towards a more traditional qe or the ecb may move more towards a more traditional qe. why is this important? if you've been keeping up a lot of the muches that occurred pushing rates down, specific cry by banks in southern europe, look at the charts of spanish ten-year, portuguese ten-year. we've done that. a lot of test tubing can show positive things like show interest rates but does it generate the type of growth that's self sustaining. it seems like the fix is in. it's seems as though the southern european interest rates are getting to the point where, hey, they almost seem to be empowered by the notion that somebody is going to be on the balance sheet to help them with these purchases. is it going to be long qe? why is it important? the bigger the qes around the globe, the bigger is question ho

that to me says there's no plan b and they haven't got a clue what they're doing. that bothers me. >> peter anderson what do you make of the fed's strategy at this point? is it appropriate given the numbers we're getting on the economy right now? >> well i think it is and i couldn't really disagree more with some of your prior commentators there. i think the minutes that i read today have been some of the best minutes i have ever read frankly. i think they're quite clear. i think there is still dissension, but it's healthy segmentation among the fed members. so i think we're not going to be on auto easy either. i think what's going to happen is they're going to taper very slowly and maybe even elastically. i think they're quite intelligent around sips tiffnd sensitive to the fact this is the first baby step and let's see how the market reacts. if it over reacts we can always reverse our position. we don't have this cast in stone. there's a lot of flexibility built in there. while i agree that there's, you know, disagreement about where exactly we are in this economic cycle, i think we shoul

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