all the action was in south africa where the president saxby sacked theister -- finance minister. gold is going to be terrible. is actually doing really well. that is what this white chart shows. it is not doing terrible from every perspective. gold that isne is surging. the idea is costs, raw material costs have gotten cheaper. not everyone hates this. if you are a south african gold miner this is a nice day for you. scarlet: absolutely. you can see all the charts and more on twitter. we mentioned crude oil. opec members show no signs of slowing down production. the drop in oil prices is good for consumers. i want to bring in our guest. joe: why hasn't this happen? guest: it has. you shouldn't be looking at nominal sales. it is a headline number we get published but it is misleading. it also gets pulled down by the strong dollar. if you look at it in real terms, and if you look at what people are spending on services, the numbers look great. they have done what you have .xpected given the drop why are markets focused on sales? sales.s after the retail it is what goes into gdp. ma

and sewed the attorney general, bill saxby, says something to him, and then bush says whatever is going to have to happen about the president's future has to happen soon because it's august of an even numbered year and your dad is looking at congressional numbers which are just a total nightmare, and her father also said because nixon was saying i have all the support in the senate, he said no, you don't. someone is not giving you the truth. and you know as president of eager our people to come to the bad news? >> rarely. >> so what he does is he leaves his cabinet baby and he writes a letter urging the president to resign. so the chairman of the rnc has now written a letter to richard nixon telling him his patron to whom he owes his last two jobs, that it's better for the country for him to go. >> when people read this book, what would you like them to take away about 41? >> fatty food politics as a noble undertaking, that he was someone uniquely who put the country before his own narrow political interests. one of the great examples of president that was the 1990 budget deal. he broke