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but today they were the dow award 124 points, s&p going to a new high, and s&p a 12-year high. big themes work just fine, too, especially when you find new ways to play. even on this, the 18 straight up tuesday. then again, who is counting? remember, there are five big these ease ive spelled out time and again on "mad money" this year. five ideas in this markets sweet spot that have gotten us this far. can even be used for the sell in may towel-throwers. i mentioned the latter, because...

findings here that have been absorbing washington over the past couple days. now is our first chance to actually dive in and read the report. heres what they said they found. they found that the irs has used inappropriate criteria that identified tea party and other groups applying for tax exempt status. the irs also caused delays in processing certain applications, and it issued unnecessary information requests to groups for information such as who their donors are and other identifyi...

loomus of "fortune." we caught up with him last night. last night when we caught up with him, we got to talk about everything from jobs to jpmorgan, ibm and even twitter. buffett sent his very first tweet yesterday afternoon from an account that was finally created. i think there was something like 27 bank accounts out there. the real one has been verified. its @warrenbuffett. he only has one tweet and well talk about that a little later. then well speak with denyis knautz and jeff ped...

more cash for investors. listen to this. raising quarterly dividend and increasing stock buyback program to $60 billion from $10 billion. the new capital plan includes issuing debt for the first time because they have that money sitting overseas but cant bring it back because policy at this point. analysts point to comments from ceo tim cook on the conference call he said some really great stuff was coming in the fall and 2014. they say that suggests that apple would have no new produc...

the a.p. twitter account. but it set off this reaction in the dow jones industrial average, as you see from the chart, a huge spike down on that news. down about 143 points at the bottom. and then bouncing right back up, all of that happening within the space of about three minutes. and by sheer coincidence, the white house briefing was set to start, and by tradition, the a.p. reporter gets the first question from the white house. and she had a chance to make a little bit of news of he...

to repeat our old mistakes? a new report says the white house pushing hard to get more people loans for homes that have lower incomes and lower credit scores. isnt that how we got into the financial mess five years ago? and the presidents other big push today. the one for more gun control. is back on. with a trip to denver. he is calling for more background checks to stop gun violence. but heres the thing. it is generally not the people who actually undergo background checks that we ha...

0 another country. >> well, sir, the bilateral security agreement is in mind for the interests of both countries. we understand that the issue of immunity is of very specific importance for the united states. as was for us the issue of sovereignty and detentions and the continued presence of international forces in afghan villages and the very conduct of the war itself. with those issues resolved, as we did today, part of it, the rest was done earlier, i can go to the afghan people and argue for...

♪ you can go your own way, go your own way ♪ congress has not been able to get this stuff done, not because democrats in congress dont want to go ahead and cooperate, but because i think its been very hard for speaker boehner and republican leader mcconnell to accept the fact that taxes on the wealthiest americans should go up a little bit as part of an overall deficit reduction package. the offers that ive made to them have been so fair that a lot of democrats are getting mad a...

>> well, i think thats right. i dont think anything has been settled. there have been on going conversations, but obviously the discussion will heat up this week now that the thanksgiving is behind us. >> what does the white house hope to accomplish with these types of events? >> well, look, this was not a side issue in the campaign. throughout the last presidential campaign the president made very clear that his number one focus was jobs and the economy and also having a long-term pla...

sometimes choppy waters? >> i dont know whether you could have heard kenny just a second ago, isnt that interesting. first, stocks marching higher as we kick off a monster week of earnings. keep in mind the dow just about 6% from its all-time high set back in 2007. how much higher can we go? listen to what john taft told cnbc earlier today. hes the ceo of rbc wealth management, managing more than $225 billion. >> i believe that if congress were to pass and the president were to sign ...