. >> with me now to drill down into the numbers and william cohan, former investment banker, "bloombergw" columnist and author of "money and power how goldman sachs came to rule the world". and dan gross, economics editor and columnist and yahoo finance columnist, and the author of the um coming book "better, songer fatter, the myth of an american decline and the rise of a new economy." dan let me start with you. you interpret the numbers a little differently than most. where is your economy going now >> the 2.2% growth was just the first estimate. they will revise that. and it is usually upwards. i think basically the story is now the u.s. consumer is doing much better than it was a few years ago. there are more people working than there were a year ago. car sales retail sales generally moving in the right direction, but the pace of growth is slowing a bit. >> it's not only slowing -- and bill let me ask you this. it's better than nothing, but if you have an eight cylinder car, you are not getting the speed you need to catch up to the guys in front of you. not enough to get unemploymen

money and power: how goldman sachs came to rule the world," and full disclosure, a person friend, william cohan, thanks for coming. >> great to be back here with you. >> just last week, congress passed this bill this is like fraudulent bill. how long is this thing? >> it's right out of george oreswell. it allows companies with under a billion dollars in revenue to basically side step all of the securities. >> so -- wait -- i want to make sure i'm getting this right. the crisis was in '08. the economy still hasn't come back. we have poured trillions of dollars into the coffers of the banks, and now they have bought the congress to repeal the very few provisions that were put in place to protect the economy? >> and to protect investors. >> at what point do you give up and say, congress -- can we indict the entire congress and say you are as an entire organization corrupt? >> congress approval rating has never been lower. and for good reason. you have by partisan support for something called a job's act? >> look, you know the ceos and i say this with serious deference, you have written about wall