affordable to someone making 80% of ami, if you look at the full range. >> yes. supervisor olague: the lower your on the economic spectrum the fewer options you have as far as housing. >> yes. supervisor olague: is that reflected in this data? >> when you are looking -- when we are talking 50% ami, even at the steady rains, it -- only 6% of every single studio would be affordable to people at 50% ami. supervisor olague: it would be important to understand how this impacts the quality of life for families, particularly who are below the 50% ami level to find out where they're living and how. i do not know of that data exists but it might be good to do. we could export more deeply. -- explore that more deeply. >> i will go back to the powerpoint here. we can go back to that side again. -- a that slide again. -- to that slide again. we are talking about the universe of rentals. there is 212,000 rental units. the number of the restricted affordable rental units the city has, that is 18,000. that is 80% of the total. of those, 76% of our deed- restricted rentals. 18,00

but you look at ataska in minneapolis and you look at how business government and a social sector have come together for big issues, there are places like that that actually really want to move and i think we should really push on that. >> that's great. questions right over here. and can you identify yourself? >> my name is keith roger and my question is for tom connelly. if i understand, dupont's harvest business relates to the industry and harvard relates to lower-tech grassroots industry in terms of suppliers. my question is, are those types of local grassroots industry actually having a tough time these days because banks have gotten bigger and internationalized and investment firms are big and internationalized and at the local level, to get financing for their peculiar local enterprises, you know a. home builder, the bank meet certain underwriting criteria, however sound or not, and that mortgage can be sold on a secondary market. but if you have a local enterprise, it's a very localized specific characteristic. it's probably not going to insight a big venture capital firm. may i

>> you don't have to look like you're going to a costume party. ith the colorful jeans. we've seen a will the of those coming back. we have and rhea showing that off with an oversized sweater. >> it's an adorable trend. if you pick a color like this, you actually get all the '80s you need. you can do a nod off the shoulder we are a cream sweater. you could do black shoes. this is fun but a very easy and wearable way to do the color jeans and do a little bit of '80s. >> and she's got the mardi gras balls around her neck. >> yes. >> i'm comfortable with that. just a touch of color on your nails. goes a long way. >> lace is also -- thanks, hon. lace was a big trend in the '80s. >> you love it. >> this is beautiful. >> this is our nod to madonna and to kathie lee. so, you know, we picked this dress from h&m, a really easy way to wear '80s and incorporate lace into your wardrobe. you could do more fun, put on a bright tight, but you don't have to. we also added a little blue to her eye shadow. >> is that back, the blue eye shadow? >> but put on your nor

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is that data you look at? seeing a lot of buybacks announced and implemented. >> there's a lot of data on the buybacks. you have to net out whether it's just increasing or decreasing the supply created by option exercises and so forth. looking at announcement of buybacks which is actual number of buybacks that the companies execute on. i've not seen any research that looks at buybacks and insiders together to see which one of them may be more revealing. but it is true that a lot of companies are increasing buyback activity. i think because there were so many months if not a couple years there after the bottom of the market in late 2008-2009 when companies rain shower holding on to any cash they had. there's probably some pent up demand there. by that same demand, that same pent up would have been there. and an alarming sign six months ago. probably today as well. >> and six months ago obviously the market was significantly lower than we are now. just so we understand everything, you're talking about -- most of

if you look at the price of natural gas and wind ei projects, they are both wrong. you ask any economist what will the price of wind be in five years, what will the price of gas be in five years, they will both be wrong. i know economists and academics have to find a place to start. ei data is not a good place to start. when you have wall street and rate cases at the state level and at the federal level that have real numbers that go into real rates. for wind that's in the $30 megawatt hour range. the one other thing about your research, i didn't quite understand why the oil and gas drilling component of the study was included in the electricity piece. i agree california should drill but i don't think they will. i don't think it's a likelihood. if they stop all imports into the california, what they would be eliminating is hydrofrom the pacific northwest, the lowest form of energy going into california today. as well as some of the coal plants built where power shifted into the los angeles basin. so the second study, i don't know where to start to be honest with you.

so in this case, we have many, right, if you look at it. now, you can also count the number of edges. >> right, so it's essentially just the lines that i'm seeing here that demarcate where the boundaries are. >> right, you're just counting the lines on that object, and then the vertices are just the points on that object. >> so i've got these three numbers: the number of faces, the number of vertices, and the number of edges. >> and if you take the faces minus the edges... >> subtract the number of edges. >> plus the vertices... >> add the number of vertices. >> then you have a number called the euler characteristic. and it has the properties invariant, and what that means is no matter how i do that, no matter how i break my object into polygons, that number is always the same. it's always the same if they're topologically the same, and it allows you to decide that two surfaces are different. now, it happens that it even has a nicer way to think of it, is that our purse has these handles, and you could think of, in the orientable case, 2 min

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are you looking at the balance sheet? are you looking at assets? and you've seen microsoft, it's remained strong. if we see windows 8, doesn't that translate to better pc market? better dell? >> well, the one thing i think the markets underestimating is that apple is $100 billion company in terms of revenue. and apple, you know as they get larger with the mac business, with the ipad business, it's going to start, it's already started eating into windows. you saw in q4, the windows, the overall pc market grew only, it was flat. whereas apple grew 20%. we think dell is going to feel the brunt of the pain of that. we think the market is grossly underestimating the impact. >> i'm saying going forward. if we're looking for you know, a windows expansion or windows multiple, if you will. wouldn't that translate to better pricing for dell? and i think the question is, not how much dell has run, but was it oversold at $14? >> yeah, i mean the thing is that windows 8, it's not clear when it's going to ship. there's a lot of speculation. it's going to ship in

we are very much looking forward to that. >> greta: well, if you look at the conventional wisdom, looking ahead, it's a rough schedule for you because have you coming up, the minnesota caucuses and governor pawlenty, who has endorsed governor rom if he felt have you michigan coming up. i would assume with romney connection in michigan, that he has the leg up in that one. have you missouri coming up and your father didn't make the ballot there. that's a beauty contest. but still, this is a rough couple of weeks for your campaign. have you to look beyond it a little bit, don't you? >> oh, absolutely. i love the way you said "a beauty contest." we don't want to run a beauty contest for anybody. this is a very serious rest. dad's right, senator santorum has every right to run, he's a great guy. he has been helping to reform welfare under dad. but nationally, there are two main candidates, governor romney and my father, newt gingrich. part of what this process is about is really honing the message, talk about this core conservative values. i think the farther we go along, the clearer the contr

you know how you don't realize how hideously ugly you look until you look at the picture? at. anyway, we went down the mayan temple and had a good competition to see who won. we'll let you decide. it wasn't even close. >> look how ugly. by the way, that's a lot of fun. >> look at my hips. >> that's frightening. look a that. >> i don't know who won it. oh, it's obvious. >> not even close. >> you did. it was a blowout. here's the other thing we had fun with. we have kissed a lot of people in our lives. >> well, you have. yeah. you've had a much more illustrious kissing career than i have. >> you know what happened yesterday? we kissed a girl and we liked it. ♪ i kissed a girl and i liked it ♪ >> her name is sasha. >> and she was so cute. >> she's beautiful! oh, my gosh. you know, i used to bring our kids down here all the time when they were little to the bahamas, and they have been swimming with the dolphins a lot. but we had never done it. neither of us have done it before. boy, was that special. you'll see a little of that. >> and we swam with them, too, which is one of th

are you looking at this for the year? this is the best start for the s&p since 1998. 191 -- 1991, excuse me. 20% below the same period last year. >> the new normal. >> to what do you a tribute that? >> number one, individuals are trading less. number two, the big corporate trades, the mutual funds are trading less. high frequency traders are trading less. right across the board. it's all asset classes. options are down as well. >> probably because of the uncertainty of the volcker rule. >> i'm sure. >> thanks, bob. >> bertha, the nasdaq, that's what we're going to be watching now as we head toward 3,000, right? >> it is. oftentimes we're not going to close the first time we pass the intraday. we also saw a little bit of energy lost after those comments from bernanke, people were worried about qe-3. when you look at the risk, i don't want to say this time it's different, but let's contrast. the first time the nasdaq was moving towards 3,000, boy, those were heavy days here. this was the cool place at the nasdaq. you had the

-- you look young, you look good. >> we're looking at job growth and competitiveness every day, and we've got the numbers tomorrow. how do you see the overall business climate right now in the country, based on all the input you get from fedex? >> well we're looking for gdp number of about 2.1% for this year. that's a little bit below the blue chip consensus but the u.s. economy is growing. unfortunately, it's not growing at a rate that's high enough to absorb the growth in population, so we're not making much of a dent in the unemployment numbers. i'll be interested to see what you report on that. >> me, too. fred there's a big piece in "the journal" today that we've gone back and forth with this recession that we just went through, and the piece today sort of is i guess tries to convince you that it's not necessarily different this time, like rogoff and rhinehart say, we've had similar times in the past, goes back to 1907 where we had a sharper snap-back than we've had this time, and implying that it's not, that we w

you can look that building and actually see, if you look carefully, you can see the number of floors. two floors with an addition in the back and a bunch of an abbreviationses and the big key in front of the thing and the one with the little stairs. so how is that important to you. san francisco has amendment to the code that says if you have a stairs and a deck on your back porch and you want to replace them you can replace them in their original configuration if they were properlyibility in the first place. how can you prove they were? in many cases that's hard to prove. but here it is this shows exactly where the shaping configuration of the stairs is. so we have a set of the most current inborn or sand born map's behind the planning department counter that will be happy to make or let you look at them and make copies of them there's a free copy machine. i've seen the old ones. not in the last year or two, do you know where they are? >> the series four books are on the sixth floor of the san francisco public library and early series are micro film also from the library. if you belo

when you look at the dynamic, i love this. to me a pure way to -- it's the global wealth creation story. as you have more and more wealthy people, you have more and more art collectors. this is long standing. there two big players. sotheby's. it's a competitive environment and it's great to be in a duopoly like this. you have the idea that art is considered a store of value. while people are looking around the world for what can i own whether it's gold or do they not want to own currencies. art is an accepted store of value. you have the macro dynamic and what survived and thrived the near death experience and you have the ftc settlement where they were fixing prices and levered up to build the flagship building. it wouldn't be the most shocking thing if someone took it over and you don't need that at all. i love this company and that the dynamic is fascinating. >> that are is compelling and the chinese billionaires and 74 live in moscow alone. why is this a duopoly. >> if you auction something, you cannot leave the country. if

you look at the slv options. interesting, however, because you traded more calls than puts.ittle bit surprising. you'd expect on a day like today you'd get puts to accelerate. it wasn't that way. it was 2-1 calls. and a lot of repositioning. the most notable trade was out in may. march the most active. in may some large folks out of the calls that had performed and moving up higher strikes to see if they can get some performance out of those. >> so if you had to interpret it, the belief gold will move higher down the road. >> that was my interpretation. gold on the other hand they do work in tandem. i'd expect the same way. >> let's bring in dennis gartman for his take in the move in the precious metals today. always good to speak with you. >> always good to be spoken with. i've got to admit, this is really quite a day. i was doing a speech this morning for ubs early. walked out after 10:00. i was watching gold. it's up a dollar, up two. then down $10, down $15. i was lowing in my own account. it's one of those days you say i don't know what's going on but i'm selling some b

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in fact if you look at some of the price targets that people have out there, $670, that gives you a $630 billion cap. i spent sometime going through looking through history. there is no precedent of any tech company hitting that valuation. i'm not saying it can't happen but the fact that there is no precedent at all, microsoft's high was about 587 on december 31st of 1999. cisco's high $487 billion april 29th of 2000. have you to be concerned about it. large numbers kicking up for apple. >> good to have you on the show as always. >> thank you. >> if the market is expecting a dividend, the options market doesn't appear to be pricing one in. >> no, not at all. looking at the january, 2013 option. that is almost a year from now. those options are not even pricing in much of a difficult den dend at all. maybe 50 cents. doesn't seem like their cash is going to go toward dividends. they have a few other worries. their cash basically is stuck overseas. and the whole tax problem of bringing cash back is a big issue for them. they need to hold the cash back in that sense. number two i think they

when you look through august and october between the lows there, that's the vix. that's the s&p and crude. they're all kind of jumbled up together. then you see them go in separate directions. and the vix melts into nothing here. that relationship can exist for a bit longer. but at some point something's going to give. then you'll see that stuff come back together. that's the worry for volatility. >> i think the lower volume is a good thing. it means there's not a lot of interest going on. it's generally fairly healthy, the growth that we're seeing. i think that actually this is one of those situations low volume's a good thing. >> well, i think twice i'm going to disagree with scott a bit. i would like to see higher volume here. what bid are you going to hit when things get pear shaped? that's the first level of concern i have about low volumes at this point. and the other thing is take a look at the stocks that performed exceptionally well. we're looking at the industrial names. these tend to be cyclical and driven for quite some time now for the biggest industri

see when you look at total e.c.b. lending is that it's really gone up for at least spain and france and if you look at over a couple years it's gone down overall for germany so this week we're going to see l.t.r. which is one of these programs it's one percent money for three years. we're going to see what what banks are going to take it how much of it is going to be disbursed and it that it's much more important than just one l.t.r. auction this week and so we want to talk about what exactly it means where i want to bring back an economist constantine you have to talk about this so i just showed a chart to our viewers showing what you see be lending has looked like to some of these countries and one interesting thing that we saw right after the last l.t.r. was that much of the newly printed money ended up back at the e c b s deposit facility and we took that to mean that banks were worried about their balance sheets wanted to shore them up were concerned about liquidity so they were stashing money at the e.c.b. as op

when you look at history. but it's thought that iran's economic situation is such that this really will put pressure on it, that this is a, this is really a new game that's being played with iran because these sanctions are so much more serious and so much go to the heart of the matter compared to anything that's happened. you can see what's going on here is that they keep talking about keeping the other option on the table. some kind of military option or the least not taking it off the table so the iranians don't know what's going to happen. and it really is a game in which there's a lot of uncertainty. the iranians for instance they did make an effort to in some way disrupt supplies to the strait of hormuz. so communication is not very good on either side real ascribing it. but i think that the k50eu78d of one debate is are the iranians rational. i was having a discussion with one of the key people yesterday and the question they put is we do think the iranians are ultimately rational. i think the riernse i

if you look at a chart of b.a.c. d chart of the yield curve, you can see they're extremely correlated. i think the risk/reward makes sense here. >> to tie that up you're betting it stays beloin 2%? that plays into our next conversation. >> that is correct. i will be disagrees with our next analyst. i think that pricic power in general is so muted. one of the things we see -- we saw a good jobs report last week, bud what we're not seeing is wage growth, and in fact real wages are declining. that's not the recipe for me for inflation. i think bernanke is right, it's a recipe for a initted log forward. >> let's go head to head on our next conversation your best may may be to buy schwab. brian badell comes to us on the fast line. i hope you were listening to the last conversation. >> i was. >> that senator would would be a negative if it stayed below 2%. basically schwab has been through -- been a rates story, and been through compression and we think that that headwind has largely ended for now. it may stay there for a c

and you look in a store now and you look at the prepared food and look at the ingredients. , oil used to be a pretty highly used ingredient. in terms of their prepared food. you don't see oil listed as an ingredient in the items they specifically call out as health and wellness. i think as you continue to have all these scares with genetically modified foods and things like that, it's a go-to destination. >> it's tim. you talked about that they don't really have any competitors. i look at the valuation and look at them relative to themselves. ultimately, this stock is also priced for perfection. around 35 times trailing earnings. historic for these guys is 27, 28. you know better. but at some point you have to say first of all these guys, do they deserve almost a 40 multiple? is that the type of multiple we should pay for a food retailer? and is that sustainable? >> well, i guess i would say i do -- i don't disagree with you in terms of the numbers. but i first would point out is what's the e. because they're operating margin this quarter was at the highest its been since 20

i think if you look at the statistics and you look at the -- where the source of the talent's coming from, a big chunk of that is from foreign talent. if you see what's happening right now at the m.i.t.s and so forth, people who are graduating and, for example, we try and hire them. and we're probably going -- they probably should be going -- not to law school. we're probably part of that. i should be careful what i say. all of a sudden we'll bring them in. they can't get a job with us. they can't work in the u.s. so we send them to canada. we send them to germany. guess what -- guess where we start putting some of our center of competence for advanced -- it's ridiculous, this thing. i think we have to blow that cap. i don't know how much screaming -- i don't know whether we should camp out in tents. maybe that's the business. we should camp out in tents until something happens. but it is seriously a big issue just on that -- that dimension. i think a second one is the -- what i call around the polytechnics. there's kind of an image -- this is maybe when you get into the cultural --

we are very much looking forward to that. >> well, if you are looking at the conventional wisdom looking ahead, it is a rough schedule for you. you have coming up the minnesota caucuses, you have governor paw paw -- palenti and michigan coming up and i assume with the romney connection, that he at least has the leg up going into that one. and you have missouri coming up, and your father didn't make the ballot there. it is a beauty contest. this is a rough couple weeks for your campaign. you have to lock beyond it a little, don't you? >> absolutely. i love the way you said a beauty contest. clearly we don't want to run a beauty contest. this is a serious race. senator santorum has every right to run. he is a great guy. he has repped reform welfare. -- he has helped to reform welfare. nationally there are two main candidates and that is governor romney and my father newt gingrich. and part of what this process is about is honing the message and talking about the core conservative values. and i think the farther we go along the cleary the contract will be between my father who balanced the

if you look at seasonally adjusted a fresh low participation rate going back to december of '81. what does that mean in english? shrinkage. shrinkage. 1.2 million people are now not considered unemployed anymore. they just have left the system.

you look at it. illionaires and the kids are running around and partying in the hamptons, the only cure for their lives if they are bored and have everything is to create. sometimes creation is the best solution to create. now, not destruction, but harmony. we need to make sure that there's art in the school. why? why should art be in the school? because if art isn't in the school, then a guy like steve jobs doesn't get a chance to really express himself, because in order for art to meet technology, you need art. you know, it is not like, oh, it is technology, you need both. i think that we need to maintain that balance, and that's where people kind of get it a little muddy. and then when you think about, you know, the class thing that is going on, and you have one group of people that are wearing all of the white, and playing cricket or croquet or however you say it -- >> cricket. >> and they are playing that, andb then you is another crew plague it on the sidewalk and playing skully on the sidewalk

oh, he only took you out to dinner to propose? >> lookpose on the jumbotron at a sports arena. >> that's getting old anyway. >> exactly. everyone is doing it these days a nice romantic dinner is fine. just try a polite response and say, hey, he took me to my favorite restaurant, it was private and just what i wanted. >> when you say it was just what i wanted to anything, it's like, you're right, personal choice. >> sometimes people get aggressive. >> they're making it about them, not you. >> yes. situation number two. if the ring is dinky. well, i guess we're in a recession, right? what if they make that comment? >> this is your single frenemy, now you know why. if this person is so materialistic to be judging your ring next to theirs or something, that's not what it's about. so, again, go with a polite response and say, look, we're saving up for -- fill in the blank -- a car, a house, a wedding. we wanted to devote more money to that. >> and a snappy response. >> well, he doesn't feel like he needs to overcompensate for anything. >> i li

if you climb on the edges of the rung, the ladder will go this way. look up so you know where you are going and you can see where you're going to climb. walk vertically. don't step off to the side of the ladder. kind of common sense. make sure you read chapter 7 through the . >> this class is managing a disaster. what happens and how do we fit in? emergency operation plan, everything is going to go through the mayor. you have the office of emergency services, everything is supposed to come together over on turk street. that's where the ham radio base station is going to be. that's where they will have a set up. they will be communicating with all the different emergency response districts. that's where we fit in. we're going to fit into this emergency response staging thing into nert staging districts. each response district has its own little (inaudible) then the nert groups are broken up into the corresponding emergency response districts and they are located at our fire department, battalion chief stations, basically there's a battalion chief there, he

you look back in history where we have been locked and unable to fix a problem. then at certain points almost when you think the spheanl kettle's about -- steam kettle's about to blow whether it's the reselection of a president or election of a new president can open the log jam. the united states has gone through these crises almost once every 40 years. we had a great depression in the 1890's. we had a great depression in the 190's. we had the economic crises in the 19 70's and here we are 40 years later. the next decade in every one of those situations the united states came roaring back and actually was stronger relative to the rest of the world than it was before. now as they say most performance is no guarantee. i don't want to be complacent but it but we approved as a nation to be remarkably resilient and flexible even at times when it doesn't look like it we find up fighting our way through those problems. >> charlie: do you have in your judgment a more optimistic future if we could deal with these paralysis that affect our own capacity to do things that we

when you look at these, you think nothing ever changes in american politics, it's unbelievable how the arguments are exactly the same. but in a way, i think when i looked at the ads of the daisy ad in particular in some of those early ones, they were so much more inventive. one of the things about mccarthy's ad, there's -- they are i think relatively predict able kinds of stories, it's just basically a bar brawl, it's you know, one big whack to the jaw. and not subtle. >> in your article, you -- i was interested because mccarthy is just kind of a normal guy, tell us more about him. >> yeah, i mean, i was expecting, you never know what you'll find when you start a profile. i expected great evil and a hater and someone who liked anger. and i would call people up and they would say he is a great guy, he is so funny and dlie-- funny and i was waiting to here that he lives in a big po smpsh home. but it was not ordered up the way one would expect. but it was more interesting that way. the point of being a reporter is to figure out what the truth is and not make it up in advance. it was inte

no matter how good you look on paper, this is very difficult. be ready to run in the primary or general election. >> you must have a short list in your head? >> looking at people who could come in. there's bobby genoa from louisiana. would any of those guys do it? probably not. i think we go against the president with the field we have and i'm not optimistic in november. >> no, i think mitt romney's in the best position to do that. you wanted an outsider. you want somebody who doesn't have that washington, d.c., you know, senate record. >> he has made some big stumbles, public stumbles. when he should have been doing his victory lap after florida. >> remember, when we did barack obama and hillary clinton, they went till june. we're still early in this process. as mitt romney has said, this makes us stronger. doesn't make us more divided. it prepares us for november. >> al said the opposite thing. he said spending money to bring down republicans separates the party. >> we were just about doing iowa at this point. >> keep in mind, in 2008 we had a

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he was very drawn into the if you look at this. which is sourced from france it comes from hano, goes into people like munier and we get it on this side of the pond. it's terribly important for him. could you comment a little bit on how this works for mays? this personalism as an ethical concern? we know that mays has this ethical orientation. is it connected intellectually to the personalism that so influences martin? >> well, mays is not like sheffield, brighton, boston, a personalist, but mays' experience is, i mean, he opens his own auto biography saying my first memory is of a mob. my father is attacked and made to cowtow for fear of his life. and mays, like thurman, both of them are rooted in the deep south. we can never take that away from them. they both experience the terror of the deep south in the way terror distorts the personality. if you have to kowtow, that distorts your personality. they almost seem like the narrative of douglas. douglas says the first time they are trying to beat him, he's almost going back in his h

you look great. >> i do? god. >> it's just [ bleep ]. >> hey, thanks for the clip. >> that's what you turn into after you leave me here? on this wonderful, i love you -- >> la, la, la, la. >> yes. and then you go with her and you feel like [ bleep ]? oh, my gosh, hoda. oh, man. >> that is not great. >> your mother just called. >> i know. >> she did not raise you like this. >> she did not, and i rarely curse. >> but sometimes it's not a person's fault because sometimes -- can you give me a beep? [ bleep ] happens. and sometimes it happens [ bleep ] in ways you cannot even imagine. tell the story, hoda. >> all right. so there was a couple that was sitting out in their backyard on long island. >> minding their own business. on a beautiful february evening, which we've had lately. >> they just happen to live in the line where the planes fly over to jfk. sometimes planes fly over. while they're out there, a beautiful day, and suddenly they noticed some black oily stuff all over their deck. and they were, like, boy,