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Motley Fool Hidden Gems Investing

Motley Fool Money: 09.25.2009

Motley Fool Hidden Gems Investing

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🗓️ 25 September 2009

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

A former Fed Chairman has some tough love for "too big to fail." Twitter has a new round of financing.  Google has some cheaper options.  And an unemployed metal-detecting enthusiast has a new lease on life.  We'll tackle those topics, talk about the latest handheld gadget news, and share three stock ideas. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Welcome to Motley Full Money. I'm Chris Hillen. I'm joined in the studio by Motley Full

0:08.5

Senior Analyst Seth Jason, James Early, and Shannon Zehran Guys. Happy Friday. Happy Friday

0:13.4

you guys. On today's show, we'll look at Google's options, Twitter's valuation, and

0:19.1

get a sneak preview of Too Big To Fail, the sequel. And as always, we'll share three stock

0:24.5

ideas on our radar, but we begin with this week's G20 meeting in Pittsburgh. We didn't

0:30.2

want to, but the G20 is made up of countries representing roughly 90% of the world's output

0:35.2

so we kind of felt obliged. In advance of this serious gathering of world leaders, US Treasury

0:41.2

Secretary Tim Geithner went for laughs when he said America's days of spending too much

0:46.0

and saving too little are over and that other countries shouldn't count on American consumers

0:51.6

to buy their exports to drive growth or at least I didn't really say that. I think he's

0:56.4

going for laughs, wasn't he? Does he know what the United States is? Can he find it on

1:02.0

a map? So are we buying Secretary Geithner's statement? If you have an opportunity to talk

1:07.2

tough, then why not talk tough? I think that that's what he's doing. Right now, American

1:11.1

consumers are deleverging. They're saving more than they have in quite a long while.

1:15.8

How long that's going to last? I don't think it's going to last very long. If and when

1:19.1

things return to some semblance of normalcy, consumers will do what they do, which is spend

1:23.4

out the wazoo. Any irony here is that we're sort of conflicted. We're supposed to save

1:28.0

because we've been spending, like there's no tomorrow, but yet consumer spending is such

1:32.8

a huge part of the GDP. We're supposed to borrow more and spend more now to get the economy

1:36.4

kickstarted again. So, you know, I'm not sure what to do as an American here. Let me point

1:40.8

out one thing. China, everybody bashes China, but China only actually owns 5% of US Treasury.

1:47.8

So yes, it is funneling us a lot of money, but it's not maybe as much as some people think.

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