when i was leaving a fourth grader looked me in the eye and said, i have a piggy bank at home and i will help you raise money for the school in pakistan. i didn't think anything of it. 6 weeks later the school is raised 65,000 penes. >> main stage's loud efts performance was about bief the detroit native high strung. they had an energyic performance. the concert was a plash back to the kinks and the who and tv shows like hala blue. ladies and gentlemen. the high strung. [music] >> hope you enjoyed this look back at some of the entertaining guests that graced the stage of the main library. you can watch more highlights from main stage on you tube and new episodes on sfg. org. watch for more readings, speakers and performances during the next year. we leave you with a bonus performance from the high strung. and a thank you to everybody that made the last season possible. [applause] if you have lip gloss put it on right now. tuck your ties in ♪ >> thank you very much. >> one, two, three. ♪ ♪

i got ready to leave, a fourth grader named jeffery looked me in the aye and he said i've got a piggy bank at home and i'm going to help you build that school. west side school raised 65, 300 pennies. it wasn't the celebrities or the sports heroes or movie stars or if i lan throw pears but children reaching out to children half way around the world to help them build a school. what can you buy with a penny the bay area? probably nothing. in montana you can buy 1/2 tootsie roll. but in afghanistan you can buy a pencil. it's not that's so important but education gives a child hope. you know, if you fight tear riz her rorism it's based in fear but the real enemy is ignorance that bleeds hatred. here in america, afghanistan, africa or pakistan. the way to overcome that i think is through education and also with having courage and compassion. instead of building walls we need to build peace and have the courage to do that. so i went back to pakistan in 94 and brought the school supplies and finally got to the village and the man was again there to greet me. he shook his head and said, chizle wh

if we could find something else to do on weekends, they're might be more money in our piggy banks. suzanne pratt, "nightly business report," new york. >> tom: here are the stories in tonight's n.b.r. newswheel: a strong start to bank earnings helped stocks end the week higher. the dow rose 55 points, the nasdaq added 20 and the s&p 500 was up nine. trading volume ended the week on a high note with just over a billion shares trading on the big board and over two billion on the nasdaq. a big day for a.i.g. as the bailed out insurance giant repaid $47 billion to the federal reserve bank of new york. the move clears the way for the company to begin exiting u.s. government ownership. the treasury holds 92% of the company's stock valued at roughly $68 billion. it plans to sell that stake over the next two years. meanwhile, the treasury today said it will auction warrants in citigroup, boston private financial and wintrust financial during the first quarter. that will effectively end the government's stake in those firms. still ahead, what's behind the gold rush? gold is up 60% over the p

a lot of people who begin use their home as a piggy bank, unfortunately, if we can call it that. and what you're seeing is of course with the deflation of the housing market that isn't there any more. and so you are having a series of folks who might ordinarily go in who cannot do so. and we are seeing right now in the statistics are beginning to come through that for the first time in my memory we're having fewer starts in the last couple of years than we've had in the previous years. and so we not only have this group going out but we have fewer coming in and a lot of it is tied to housing. >> i want to come back to the housing thing. but taylor, do you want to follow up? and how he was suggesting that the problem at the individual level was less significant than you think it is. go ahead. >> i -- obviously michigan has been hit by this crisis. my grandpa started a small business, my dad had a manufacturing business that's going do you know as well. so that's sort of the background for this question. but even so, like being from my hometown and just being in a family that has l

is when you are in your savings, a rainy day accounts start dwindling that means you're in the piggy bank, that is the trigger that goes off the stalks the reductions and gets rid of these opinion. it is common sense approaches but we've never been disciplined enough to do it on a larger scale. >> so before we get final thoughts, just a question, given the way all of you are talking here on stage, did the white house and the democrats and major opportunities this week with this tax deal. >> basically it was kind of a wish list to me on both sides. >> [inaudible] -- we are talking -- >> the missed an opportunity to get down to the finite of this is what we actually need to read this is our priorities and this is the pain we are going to have to pay for that. unless you all -- and i mean this, i get so excited on of labels meeting and they explained it to me because it sounded good from the beginning and then i heard about the purpose of this on as you take it state to state and expand on this and have real input and have a set down with your elective officials and you let this is allowed,

a lot of people who begin use their home as the piggy bank, unfortunately, if you can call it that. there anymore. and so, you're having a series of folks who might ordinarily go when, who cannot do so. but we are seeing right now the statistics are beginning to start coming through, not for the first time in my memory, were having fewer starts in the last couple of years than we've had in the previous years. and so, we not only have this group going out, but we have fewer coming in and a lot of it is tied to housing. >> i want to come back to the housing thing. but taylor, do you want to follow up. and how jorge was suggesting that the problem that the individual level was less significant than you think it is, but go ahead. >> just to give you some background, i'm from highly michigan cannot we say michigan has really been hit by this economic crisis. also, my grandpa start a small business. my dad had a manufactured home business that's basically going down as well. that is sort of the background for this question. but even so, being from my hometown and been in a family that has

they have done it because they have been allowed to do it and have a piggy bank in asia where they canw money from china, borrow from japan. it really has not hurt the economy. it does help the economy for a number of years. now they're looking at it and saying how did we get here? everyone is conflicted. it is not really a partisan issue. host: texas. rachel on the line for independence. caller: you will have to excuse me, i am a little nervous. and during the bank bailout everyone accused obama of bailing out the banks. for two years they called him names and everything. then we heard bush say he was responsible for bailing out the banks. i do not know why no one came to his defense before bush started on this. another thing, the stuff they're talking about health care, the fact that if you have insurance you no longer be able to keep insurance. that is a lie. and i wish someone in the media would finally start telling the truth. host: we will leave it there. regarding the activities in the house of representatives, particularly after this week, this week will be tied up mostly with

a lot of people use their home as a piggy bank if we can call it that. would you are seeing is the deflationary of the housing market. that is very important. you are having a series of folks who might ordinarily go in and who cannot do so and we are seeing right now the statistics are starting to come through, for the first time in my memory, having fewer starts in the last couple years than we had in the previous years. we not only have these groups going out but fewer coming in and a lot of it is tied to housing. >> taylor, do you want to follow up? jorge corralejo was suggesting the problem at the individual level was less significant than you think it is. >> to give some background how in michigan obviously michigan has been hit by this economic crisis. my dad used to have a manufacturing home business going down as well. that is the background for this question. even so, being from my home town and in a family that has lots of relatives i can just see the pinch in their pockets when their home is the base for loans from home business and as far as

that can't be the piggy bank to get our deficits and debt under control. it's too small. yes, sir?ed the fraction but that is one proposal he came up with, five-year nondefense spending. would that accomplish anything in terms of these longer terms? yeah. it would help a considerable amount. five-year freeze would have big dividends down the road. but, again, he was careful to point out and i would be careful to point out, that is just one part of a plan. you need much more. you have to deal with the entitlements and that side of the equation. >> a number of republicans came this and introduced a balanced budget amendment. is that something you are ready to support? >> i don't support a constitutional balanced budget amendment that are raids the social security trust fund. >> you keep talking about the need to focus on entitlements but haven't heard the president weigh in very much on what he would like to do with things like social security and medicare. would you like to see more leadership out of the white house and take the lead on these things? >> he made it clear that has to

they have done it because they have been allowed to do it and have a piggy bank in asia where they canney from china, borrow from japan. it really has not hurt the economy. it does help the economy for a number of years. now they're looking at it and saying how did we get here? everyone is conflicted. it is not really a partisan issue. host: texas. rachel on the line for independence. caller: you will have to excuse me, i am a little nervous. and during the bank bailout everyone accused obama of bailing out the banks. for two years they called him names and everything. then we heard bush say he was responsible for bailing out the banks. i do not know why no one came to his defense before bush started on this. another thing, the stuff they're talking about health care, the fact that if you have insurance you no longer be able to keep insurance. that is a lie. and i wish someone in the media would finally start telling the truth. host: we will leave it there. regarding the activities in the house of representatives, particularly after this week, this week will be tied up mostly with the