liz: i present to tracy byrnes, there was a second latte. snicker doodle latte, and i present to my dear office mate, tracy byrnes. >> gneiss thing you''e ever given me. liz: tracy byrnes, send you your dronuts. >> it's a dessert. it's a good one. >> folks, on the eve of midterm elections what are the latest polls saying? we'll break down the numbers and tell you what it means for doing business in america. will it become cheaper, easier, simpler, details with former commerce secretary carlos and with gas prices hiiting a four-year low are we nearing a bottom or will prices continue to drop? we can only hope. gas buddy.com giving us a prediction in a moment. >> i'm adam shapiro we have herbalife and it's a miss. the street is expecting a dollar 51. revenue is a miss. it came 1.3 billion. they were expecting one point, 2 billion. the stock is down over 10 percent. liz, and david. >> want good news. liz: america, gearing up to hit the polls for tomorrow's midterm elections. republicans are expected to take the senate. some races we need to rem

tracy byrnes, larry shover, barry habib. gn possibly here, tracy. >> you dig up dirt on one journalist, leads another journalist to come to the fire to figure out what the heck is going on. he create ad storm here. i get this was supposed to be a goodwill campaign of the guy needs to be fired or suspended just for sake of uber. liz: lanny davis, who worked for clinton administration, he is big crisis management guy. he came on the show, for the guy to have gone to dinner, sitting at a private dinner downtown in new york, oh, but off the record there is this journalist at papped today, which is a blog, she has been critical of us, saying all kinds of mean things, we could pay money to dig up things on her. she is mom with couple kids and journalist, are you kidding me. >> you know you're always winning argument when the other party maybes it personal. this opo research they're trying to do, not as if a public figure running for public office that is going to be elected this is just something trying to do their job. if you want

let's bring back our panel, tracy byrnes, steve forbes and brian sossi. acy, it is never good when americans think the economy is rigged, is it. >> nope. it is all about jobs of the face it we haven't seen hourly wages go up. 770,000 discouraged workers stopped looking for jobs just in october alone, david. so we have, it is all about the money that comes into your house at the end of the day and can you pay bills of your family. if people feel they can't, heck yeah, they will feel discouraged. david: steve, incredible thing about the polls, if you look at details, goes through all classes all kinds of people, white, black, poor, rich, middle class. rich are doing okay. middle class and poor and blue-collar, white alcohol lore it is across the board. >> median incomes haven't gone up the past six years. tracy talking about part-time jobs, the headline the other day part-time jobs, full-time business. people feel they can't get ahead. we're working hard. where are the rewards. they think something is fundamentally wrong and they're right. david: brian, no w

fox business's tracy byrnes. frost and frost cofounder, rob frost and pimco strategies of investment michael pinto. this laundry list of currency stories is unbelievable. they were rigging all kind of stuff and you look at names of banks. bank of america, citibank, jpmorgan, along with barclays, rbs, hsbc. rob frost, does this make you hesitant to invest in currencies or invest in these banks? >> well, first of all i think the fines that came it unfortunately a little low. in my estimation they should have hit them harder. unfortunately is very unfortunate feeling amongst many investors thatype thin does is e fire. i think these people have what is coming to them. i wish they hit them with more. liz: michael look what some the things they said firm a, these emails. i prefer we join forces. immediately looking at collusion. >> collusion. liz: jpmorgan, perfect, sic, let's do this, down team them. then he says yes. >> really encourage sympathy of the public after they brought down the financial system. now colludin

tracy byrnes, would you rather have bubbly than champagne? >> anything. >> give me ripple. >> nothing called ripple sounds good in a glass. i don't know. >> adam, thank you. all right so house speaker john boehner comes out swinging. the gop's to-do list is out as president obama vows to work with and quite frankly without congress. people have spoken. from minimum wage to taxes on your soda. come on! issues impacting your money up next. and unlocking your home with a swipe of your phone. but is replacing your key with a smart deadbolt a dumb move? the sacred turkey or lasagna on my thanksgiving day. big name retail remembers refusing to cave on early thanksgiving shopping. shaming those who do. out of ideas? well nbc looks across the popped for its next star because even when they say it's not it is always about money. tracy: the card on the table. the president vowing to go his own way with or without congress. john boehner warned that is a risky strategy. >> finding common ground will be hard work but it will be harder if the president is

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we have fox business's tracy byrnes.ve genevieve wood, daily signal contributor and jeff reeves investor place editor. genevieve, let me go to you. here is what the middle class, what i think anyway. middle class sees poor people getting a lot of extras. maybe they're not happy either but they see a lot of their tax money go to the poor. rich guys meanwhile get bailouts. rich guys get stimulus money and rich guys get stocks going way up because the fed is printing more money. meanwhile the middle class sees their income going down and they get obamacare. no wonder they are upset. >> no, you're absooutely right. i mean the president talked over and over again, did it today, talking about how great things are, they're getting better, getting better. this has been his speech but reality just saying those things doesn't make it so. and for most folks in the middle class, you're rightly pointed out, what they're making today is not worth what it was five years ago, 10 years ago. they're feeling the squeeze. david: jeff, how d

tracy byrnes. tracy, to what end? >> janise gave me goose bumps. hate begets hate. neil: they must know that. >> corporate america is not the one that did this. neil: and janise isn't corporate america. >> janise isn't even close. businesses didn't do this. they're missing the point. and they're making it worse all around, neil. for people like janise out there. my goodness, just stop already. >> janise is not just a good black american. she's a good american. people like her are put in this situation, and there's no safety net for folks like this and small business america on main street. she might have had insurance. to be able to rebuild, this will take this woman years out of her life to do so. and why wasn't there leadership on the ground when the verdict was read or when we found out that the police officer was not going to be indicted? where was the leadership for the community at that time? it was absent because smart leadership would have told them, this is absolutely the wrong decision to make. dr. king who was just on, really said it the best that i heard

tracy byrnes. tracy, what do you think? >> i think they could put the whole store on sale.of us will stop the day before. we're still all last minute shoppers. we're still last minute shoppers at the end of the day. the national retailer federation said people will shop less this year. neil: but they'll spend a little more? >> yes, but they're trying to get that cool factor. it's still a limited amount of funds. neil: i always wonder whether you just rob -- the early buying you do on thanksgiving or black friday. >> you can make that argument. neil: i just did. >> it's hilarious that i thought there's so interesting there's no money to be made in thanksgiving. halloween is a moneymaker for retailers. neil: children's outfits don't happen with it. let's leave it at that. not cute. >> here's the thing, i thought christmas things out before halloween and i'm sure larry did as well. they know that is where the money making is going to happen. bring it on. i'm on the retailers side on this one. if they can make more money, pull in more revenue, and christmas is happy, it makes u

tracy byrnes. tracy, i can see a reagan type coalition in reverse with southern democrats, this one would involve moderate democrats on the hill who would go along with republicans on backing away from this. what do you think? >> i guess. but what do republicans have to offer? where are you putting these 10 million people on the plan. they can't just go back into the system. the republicans need to start selling their version of this. fine, you want do repeal this, i get it. we'll get behind you. right now there's nothing. neil: they did have half a dozen plans on the table, but they felt it never went past harry reid's desk. that won't be an issue. but to tracy's point, they have to pick one of those plans to go with. >> because i have one car going off a cliff very, very fast, i have to pick one of the other five cars going slower on of that cliff. how about republicans talk about principles. why are they opposed to this? not because it is obamacare. it a one-size-fits-all solution that flies into

we have liz macdonald and tracy byrnes. >> in the short term we are going to see this with long-termigration that is debatable. and by the way, barack obama said this in his own book. and many of these are in fact. he says that in his book and that is what we are going to see. >> i think it's going to hurt now. i think we have no idea what the cost is. we are still trying to figure this thing out. you can do this six ways to sunday. we have no idea what this will do to the burden of the american people. >> you know, you can sign-up for obamacare. >> we dispatched a big one now. and also in light of all of this, we know that 2 million fewer full-time jobs are part of this. who is going to pay for all of us? you need this to pay the taxes and to pay for all of these government benefits. the other thing that struck me that the president is not doing is that this is a bipartisan thing and we know that companies like procter & gamble are part of it. the major companies were founded by immigrants. procter & gamble, google, yahoo, intel, they create the jobs in this country. >> that means t

and so to our all-stars now, we have tracy byrnes, more people are focused on going to the mall. >> i that we should be thankful for the people in our lives, not the possessions. and i think that we have learned that the deals will be there. you don't see family members all that often as painful as it may be for some. and you should stay and be with your family. >> it will be interesting to see staying in their pjs, getting the cyberdeals. and we will see if they do that. >> i've done it myself. >> and we have more fans. [laughter] >> and if we want to shop on that day, they are going to plop on the couch. >> we are crazy about the u.s. constitution, but it's a little bit about my favorite place on earth. and this includes consumerism and you need this or that gadget. this car those shoes. >> is so much animosity and i guess if it brings you closer, go for it. but there's something to be said about spending time with your family. >> they get the sales, we don't, we have to be open. >> that's right, these guys are under pressure, the wal-marts and targets are fighting for market share.

tracy byrnes, i think republicans should remember they've been here before. >> you said it best. you said the vote was not because they loved -@republicans. it was because they were pissed at dems. neil: did i say pissed? that was you. >> this is the lesser of the two evils. if they were smart, they would make change happen and renew the faith in the republican party, but it's not going to happen. neil: interesting. what do you think, scott? >> next thing you know arod is the most honest guy in baseball. he is fresh meat. here's the thing, if you look at the exit polls, economy, ffreign policy. over the next two years, what happened with those two things? obama the defense spending bill, he'll veto hat. tax reform, are you kidding me? repatriotism tax, are those your two issues that voters say, hey, we want these things fixed. i doubt that will happen. neil: the democrats when they were in charge they thought the republicans were dead and vice-versa, politicians have a way of succumbing to reality. how do they avoid that fate? >> well, more than a victory, this election for repub

liz mcdonald and tracy byrnes. liz, anything? >> i'm rethinking this. supreme court justice elaine akagan. this is what she said when this court, the supreme court vacated the labor -- remember the appointees, these resist appointees. you can't do that. the constitution does not give the president the power his will on the congress. (?) if they're so easy to evade. that's what republicans can argue. they can present their own positive immigration reform. more h1 visas. giving green cards to people with stem diplomas. and saying, if you want to live here, if you want to be an immigrant, if you're going to be under this, pay back taxes and pay a fine. neil: the bottom line the president is doing this because republicans blocked him at every turn. >> the ideas you give us is not good on border enforcement. so the president says, to hell with you, i'll issue a decree, that will be the end of that. how do they avoid looking like obstructionists again? >> this is about timing. two months before republicans control congress. take back the agenda -- neil: an ex

tracy byrnes. kaley. come on. >> yeah. [no audio] it falls in line with the fourth leak, i guess you would call it, where he said this was never about insuring americans. this is about cost. this was part of a strategy because he said the american voter, quote, doesn't care about the uninshe had. we have to frame it as a cost mechanism to make the unpassionate people care. it falls exactly in line what he told you. neil: we have 30 million uninsured in this country. then in the end when we had 30 million who apparently wouldn't and aren't going to be covered, well, that was the plan all along. >> that we didn't care. yet it's called universal health care which last i checked covers everyone. neil: yeah, covering everyone in the universe. >> and we're going to pay for it. he said that the lack of transparency office purpose. the people are stupid. they don't understand economic policy. yada, yada. this has been a ruse all along. neil: he never said yada. >> you're right. it has t to do with americans not knowing the facts.

tracy byrnes is not at all surprised that democrats haven't changed even in the face of these midterm votes. she's with our all-stars now including liz macdonald and others. so let's talk about that. there has to be some sort of a strategy. maybe double counting, to the left because republicans are going to keep pushing their thing and we are going to keep pushing our thing and the next two years nothing. >> as far as the democrats are concerned, they know where wages should be, they know that the wealth should be redistributed on the money, we know that we should have all universal health care, to add more regulations because we can't think on our own and they are going to double down on us and i think it's going to be more in-your-face than ever before. neil: how does wall street responds regardless? >> i think of this is built into wall street and wall street figures another 26 more months to go like this and that's not actually bad. when you look at the economy struggling along in the big issue is for the lower and middle class and the corporate economy and wall street will will d

i'm tracy byrnes with your fox business brief. the dow gained 12 points to settle 17,827.r this week the dow, nasdaq and s&p 500 all in positive territory. the market closed for things giving but will resume for friday. national retail association pretty major retailers trying to get a jumpstart on black friday though. they are all open today. go pro could soon be taking to the eri air according to the "wl street journal" looking develop their own line of consumer drones. go pro hoping to sell the drones in late 2015. keep it on the fox business network. that is the latest from the fox business network, giving you the power to prosper. bret: charles krauthammer once wrote a column about the most important person of the 21st century. "time" magazine had chosen einstein the great scientist. charles disagreed. he picked the indispensable statesman who led the fight against hitler and sounded the alarm over communism. politics trumping science. that might explain why he traded a big-time medical career for a one-way ticket to washington. once hea here his eyes launchedo a help

and tracy byrnes. if this is where the money that gone woe. >> hundred million dollar campaigns in north carolina, kentucky, and all out side money. neil: good for local stations, potentially good for us. >> true. but, it is -- we have reached a point where elections are so focused nationaly, you don't just have a slight national interest, you have a major naitonal interest, it is coming up withnese numbers. neil: liz, we b bemoan negative ads but they work. >> that is right they connection, and in this political season because, we are seeing the most frustration with congress. and the most outrage over lack of economic growth of the country, akin to 2006 when democrats swept in midterms, that is why it is renails, but i think -- recession nateing but i think that the american people know that pocketbook issues that work issuwashington dc needs toe the impediments to the economic growth. neil: i am thinking of that north carolina race, each year people spend more, but where are we going with this? >> i

we have james frischling with us on the set along with our own tracy byrnes. dr. i will start with you. it's a huge epidemic. is it as big of a problem they're making it out to be? >> yes it is, melissa. what is going on in this country, and i have said it before, there is really no politician, nobody can really balance the budget in health care unless you take care of obesity. obesity is not just one disease. obesity is on the rise. i said it many times, that our food chain is completely contaminated. we're consuming a lot more food than we should. we're not walking around, we're not exercising. this is across the board all over. obesity should be thought of just a little fat around the belly, because it secretes a lot of hormones. it affects the kidneys. the biggest problem with obesity are diabetes. they are sister and brother, they go hand in hand. melissa: okay. >> when you're obese, insulin won't work. diabetes, high blood pressure, heart disease you have something called met billionic syndrome. that leads to heart disease. that is whole spectrum of disease.

tracy byrnes say it's been ringing all our bells. politicians very creative getting money from folks not creative when it comes to saving money for those folks. so, tracy, wacky. >> i don't know where these people have money left to spend. they pay 14 percent into social security. they have a dying work force. very few people spending in their social security. their demographics against them. lots of old people. no babies coming up the ranks. lou: they like the old people. they're kind there. again, the point lizzie, the emfaa if a sis is auto o keeping the government going not starving that government. >> it wasn't always like this. it did not have these policies until the early '90s watch what happened when they raised their taxes in 1970s or there abs. (?) japan went into recession. the housing market got really hurt. we see consumers in japan, the household spending going down for six straight months. so taxes spent is not the path to prosperity. neil: go ahead, jonathan. >> liz, hits the nail on the head. japan has been in a rece

tracy byrnes is a former accountant. she knows what you need to know. gerri, here's the thing. you probably made some money. you probably sold some stuff and have gains. you don't want to pay tax on that. you're paying upwards of twept 3 percent thanks to obamacare. you have to generate some losses. be very careful. you might have positions that have losses that you really want to still hold. the irs is on to you. if you have a stock. let's say you buy it on monday at 10:00 you sell it on tuesday for $8. two-dollar loss. i'll buy it back on wednesday because i want it in my portfolio. no way. you cannot take that loss on your tax return. it's the big rule. but you have to pay attention to it. they will disallow your losses. then you're owing tax and you don't want to do that. gerri: a lot of people have owned stocks that were in an m&a deal of sorts. >> it's all about substantially identical stocks. stewart varney, if you own a loser like microsoft and you want to stem cell it and you want to buy back another tech like apple that's cool. they're not subs

liz, mcdonald, veronica dagger, tracy byrnes. there is no question both republicans and democrats admit that the chinese government is behind a lot of hacking that's going on, some of it affecting our national security, but there was no deal on this in china. >> the president actually in said cyber terrorism was the biggest threat, but apparently now it's smog in china. we lost focus there. i think the president came home with nothing overseas. not even a good spot in the picture when he came back dealing with putin. putin went home with the gold trophy. that says a lot where we are right now. david: even some of his friends didn't get squat. facebook is still illegal in china. even president obama's friends in the movie business didn't get anything. they wanted some copyright bills passed. they didn't get that. >> lot of missed opportunities for our businesses here. like you said, the risk for some of these hackers is huge. the hacking out of china is a threat to companies like apple. it's a threat to us as a country. it could h

and now for some other state initiatives, fox business tracy byrnes is here with some highlights. >>lennium wage waminimum was huge. south dakota, laska, alaska the highest up to $9 and 75 cents. nebraska though starts as of january 1, 2016. gerri: they're promoting this? >> yeah. it goes to $15 in 2015. who can afford that? there goes the pizza places. gerri::the president this afternoon and his press conference mentioned minimum wage and said it was a high priority for him and that already if you look at the polls, what you find is that people approve it. do you agree? >> i think and i think a lot of people agree, it should be indexed to inflation. let's just stop this conversation. let's just do that. gerri: it shouldn't. >> let's do something to appease everyone. yoo'll have people protesting minimum wage till the cows come home. gerri: i just don't feel that -- >> i understand what you're saying. but give them cost of living and be done. the gun check in washington state it jumped out on me because there was a shooting a few weeks ago. this was really, really pertinent in their

tracy: i'm tracy byrnes with fox business brief. amazon came out with a to personal commands.s it will answer asic questions and act on simple questions. >>> disappointed investors by saying it will not spin off power plant. >>> tonight on "the independents," ron paul, he had this to say about his son rand paul, and whether it's possible for a libertarian to becomee president? is it possible for someone with a true libertarian ideology to be elected presiient in this counnry? >> most likely not, and the bully pulpit is powerful. the war propaganda is powerful. tracy: don't miss that 9:00 p.m. eastern. that's the latest from the fox business network giving you the power to prosper. it'sore thheriver. for lom, tcompetitive edgege is. powereby micftynamic azure,nd off5, e teaman gain time ingh and stantly shinformation around the globe. when everyillisend counts, aying compitive beginswith t cl. this is the micrcld. . tracy: talk about strange bedfellow, a shocking report from the wall street journal" says president obama sent a secret letter to iran's supreme leader. asking for

the dow trading down, david asman, tracy byrnes taking you through the closing after the bell.e you. let's go to rob at the stock exchange, talk about today's shortened trading session. i start with oil, i don't have a move like this in years to the downside on oil. how is it affecting the energy stocks? >> thanks for having me on today. the opec decision not to co-production, and the stocks, the worst level since 2011 right now. and they are truly bad and whether it is the bottom in here, who knows? some of the retail is picking up and other areas could get a little bit of a bounce because of oil going down. >> oil, airline stocks on a pretty good roll lately. you are seeing that with oil heading lower. you could have a double when the effect which lower input for the airlines and not as much in the way of cost structure as well as a balance in the lower price of oil, a gallon of gas will be lower and that will help in regards. dave: the lower gas prices definitely helping retail sectors, consumers have more money in their pocket, they drive farther to get what they want, we a

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