she is so hot that sunscreen is now called sandra smith screen. i am here with sandra smith. he is so sharp that on weekends he doubles as a cheese. it is kamele foster. and his new fragrance, putrid, hits stores next week, it is bill schulz. and people all over the country hang on his every word and the meat hooks he keeps in his underground torture pit. it is comedian tom shaw lieu. and he is the little old lib who likes to tell fibs. good to see you, pinch. >> on week 20. reporting of the 100th anniversary of the ship of dreams disaster, james ban reports on titanicking, fans who visit new york cemeteries where the victims are buried. yes, it is an actual thing. you can be blase about some things, rose, but not the titanic. cue the model t up on to the boat where jack and rose will eventually make love. they steam up the windows, don't you know. hand across it. beautiful. >> is the number of reds very widespread? that is the claim of allen west who believes 80 of his colleagues are members of the communist party. west was speaking at a town hall event, an actual state when

here's fox business network's sandra smith. >> the sun is setting on a bunch of solar jobs.ar laying off 2,000 workers worldwide, around 30% of its workforce. america's largest maker of solar panels receiving millions in tax breaks and government- backed loans from washington. more mixed signals from the housing market, construction on new home projects unexpectedly falling last month, but permits for future projects rising to the highest level in more than 3 1/2 years. coke is making more as you pay more. the world's largest drinkmaker seeing its profit rise as it charged more for beverages last quarter. coke also seeing more demand for its drinks in north america. stocks drinking up big gains on big profits the dow closing back above 13,000, nasdaq topping 3,000 again. and one of the most famous investors ever diagnosed with cancer, warren buffett revealing he has stage 1 prostate cancer, the billionaire investor says he feels great and doctors tell him the disease is not life threatening. that's business. i'm sandra smith.   >> this fox 5 stock m

eastern time for "the five" coming up tomorrow we have tom shaw lieu and sandra smith and camille fosterhe was success spended -- suspended for saying hitler was good at the beginning, but not so far. and it was april 20th, 1999. and as any white supremecist can tell you, that is hitler's birthday. >> really? yikes. >> john, remind people when they can see your show? >> 9:00 on thursday nights on fox business. >> they can. >> they can. >> they can see the show, but the government can't. >> diane, where can our viewers find you on-line? >> i am writing to fox business .com. they can see me there and facebook/diane macedo news or twitter at diane macedo. it is this thursday the 12th. >> excellent. >> go to it. >> it is a lovely city. >> why do

sandra smith with the fox business network.andra, we're talking about some of the restaurants that are being effected. what changes are we talking about? >> jenna, this is definitely a hot topic. not only are fast-food chains fighting high gas prices to transport the food to the restaurants but battling high commodity prices of ingredients. some of the companies we're talking about, america's favorite, mcdonald's beef prices are going higher. ingredients that make flour are going higher. and coffee prices are going up in the popular cafe beverages. skinner, ceo of mcdonald's, costs for mcdonald's this year could go up as much as 5 1/2%. we've definitely seen this at a lot of different restaurant chains. chipolte, they serve higher end ingredients. they're definitely battling the costs as well as yum! brands which owns taco bell and kfc brands. food costs going up as well. gas prices to get food to the restaurants is also going up. so it is kind of a double-whammy for these guys. jenna: sand draw, thank you very much for that. >

here with reaction, sandra smith and monica crowley. maybe that's why david axel rod and we'll get into this, wants to talk about mitt romney's trip, many years ago on top of the car -- what do you call the dog cage thing? >> the kennel. >> sean: even that backfired. obama revealed that he sampled dogs and grasshoppers. >> here we are with the dog wars. the war on women, the dog wars. this obama campaign wants to talk about everything except what matters to the american people. that's the state of the u.s. economy, all the damage that this president has done in the last 3 1/2 years from unemployment to anemic economic growth to socialized medicine and record-breaking deficit and debt. they will change the subject to every irrelevant thing. >> sean: i agree with you. i think when axel rod went out here and it backfired. look, there is a part of this, we will get into the details about doggate and the jokes. some of them are the funniest things viread in my life. do you think this is designed, sandra, as a distraction? this is -- i am --

. >> bill: here now to explain what's going on fox business correspondent sandra smith and co-host of the five eric bolling. had you a special with sarah palin on this fday or something like that. >> friday and saturday night. >> bill: you were talking about this thing. i have been talking about it here for years that i believe that the speculators should have to put up at least 50% of the money that they actually bid on the oil, which would get a lot of riff-raff out of the market. you say? >> i say you are 100% right, bill. i'm not sure the number is 50%. but it would certainly limit the amount of speculation. let my give you an example. the globe use is 83 million barrels of oil a day. wet barrels brought out of ground and used. the world speculates or trades somewhere near 4 billion barrels a day. auto or 60 times the amount of oil that we use are traded in the form of what you call paper chasing or paper barrels. >> bill: that's because banks and brokerage houses and hedge funds and individuals want to make money trying to bet on where the oil prices are going to go. and you get

. >> bill: here now to explain what's going on fox business correspondent sandra smith and co-host of bolling. had you a special with sarah palin on this friday or something like that. >> friday and saturday night. >> bill: you were talking about this thing. i have been talking about it here for years that i believe that the speculators should have to put up at least 50% of the money that they actually bid on the oil, which would get a lot of riff-raff out of the market. you say? >> i say you are 100% right, bill. i'm not sure the number is 50%. but it would certainly limit the amount of speculation. let my give you an example. the globe use is 83 million barrels of oil a day. wet barrels brought out of ground and used. the world speculates or trades somewhere near 4 billion barrels a day. auto or 60 times the amount of oil that we use are traded in the form of what you call paper chasing or paper barrels. >> bill: that's because banks and brokerage houses and hedge funds and individuals want to make money trying to bet on where the oil prices are going to go. and you get crazy iran a

. >> smith: sandra manzke, the founder of hedge-fund giant tremont, and later maxam capital, has publiclyadvocated for more transparency in the hedge fund industry. in an exclusive interview with frontline she said she was unaware of how big madoff had become. >> did i know about all the feeder funds in europe? absolutely not. >> smith: access. >> access. i did not know of access. >> smith: banco santander had a big fund. >> didn't know that. >> smith: optimal. >> didn't know that. >> smith: manzke says everyone operated by madoff's secrecy rules. did madoff say to you, "don't put me in your prospectus?" >> yes. he did. >> smith: do you think that's right? do you think that's appropriate? >> umm, i don't know. every one of my clients knew that this was a madoff feeder fund. >> smith: so why not put it in a prospectus then? >> umm, that was one of, always, bernie's conditions of getting an account. >> smith: but you've publicly called for transparency. that's transparency. >> yes. but many funds and investors were very secretive. they didn't mention that they had money with madoff. it was

making the headlines thanks and stayed on tuesday and in the run up sandra shared some insights with our correspondents who are smith if an interview is coming up later this hour. when you think what were your criteria thought through the single biggest criterion something i would come up with. that's quite that's quite interesting because there are a number of guests that we couldn't get and so that's polk about that sort of censorship so we're still trying but. he's currently in prison under house arrest and for even using the political situation makes it extremely difficult for him to speak for me. car quite a constant. you know prison in russia. wasn't because we were in there or got us into prison so i don't want to speak to him he's in prison. then if we look at some of the us and it's not it sort of people who have the tops of power of some giant gross corporations that we have. in direct personal contact. so some of them say you know it's too dangerous for the u.s. government is concerned yes i would not put it help them get something right for it but politically it's just ignorance so. then we go to the oth