ROMANS: Good morning. Minding your business this morning. U.S. stock futures are still basically flat as the corporate earning season continues. Stocks essentially hit the pause button yesterday. But take a look at the S&P.; It is up around 6 percent so far this year. And Dow and S&P; still within shouting distance of their all- time highs. Apple, one investor taking on Apple, publicly calling on the company to give some of its massive stockpiles back to investors in the form of preferred stock. David Einhorn of Greenlight Capital is suing. He said in a release Thursday, quote, "Apple has $145 per share of cash on its balance sheet. As a shareholder, this is your money." Take a look Apple down 35 percent after hitting its all-time high of 705 bucks a share in September. In response, Apple said it would "evaluate," Einhorn's proposal. Back in the day, kids want to be firefighters, doctors, maybe an astronaut. But the new big dream -- entrepreneurs. A January Gallup poll found 43 percent of students grade 5 to 12 said they aspire to be entrepreneurs. Almost 60 percent say schools offer classes on starting a business. That's up from 50 percent in 2011. Wow. Isn't that interesting?</s>SAMBOLIN: My kid is in that bunch. He is 14 years old and says he is not working for anybody.</s>ROMANS: It's the Zuckerberg. It's the Steve Jobs of the world. It's the self starters that I think --</s>SAMBOLIN: It's the way you grow up then.</s>ROMANS: Absolutely.</s>SAMBOLIN: The school makes that way also, is where can you find the most entrepreneurs, where do they come from?</s>ROMANS: And all these people I just mentioned dropped out of college. You kids do not drop out of college.</s>SAMBOLIN: Certain colleges, right? So, when is 17,000 miles too close for comfort? Well, when we're talking about outer space and the human race. More on what astronomers are saying, coming up.
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