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This, give it back in dividends which a lot of people consider lazy and uncreative to try to go out and buy company. the rich are getting richer and the big companies, the only place they can use the huge acquisitions to put the huge pile of cash to good use. >> brenda: gary b, we talk about the markets be in record highs or all-time highs and we were basically where we were six years ago. >> exactly, brenda. in fact the nasdaq is way below its all-time highs, so theres plenty of room to grow an...

Brenda? you have higher unemployment and simple as that, this administration doesnt understand. >> so what do you think of that, caroline, would this help or hurt unemployment if we just got rid of the minimum wage? >> well, i think that would be a terrible idea and i disagree with gary b. actually those studies have experienced-- thats a relationship, other variables causing those differences because two decades of rigorous research indicate he when you do it in a planful way and mild way and r...

Any of the studies on either side. think what well see in reality is companies will outsource wherever they can, and visit your local retailer, visit your local grocery store, youll see more and more automated checkouts and thats what companies do for self-pre sel self-preservation. well pay more to the store. theres no free lunch. it sounds great on paper, sounds great in academic theory, in reality. the policies just do not and have not worked in the past. were not talking about the past now, ...

Would be retiring in such a way that wed have a definite sit. now we have a surplus. >> gary b, you say youre one of these workers, youre going to keep working all the time. >> near the upper end of that bracket, hard to believe. but i have no intention of retiring. i cant afford to retire. second of all, i think a lot of people are in the position of what else are they going to do with their life? the life expectancy, am i gog retire for the next 35 years or something? its ridiculous. so the un...

Taxes went up? tax policy does affect behavior. we know that. im going back to jfk. when gary b was a teen-ager. and the big issue there is that he was the one who started the ball rolling and it said clearly you grow the economy by growing the economy. consumer confidence at this point, i dont buy the payroll tax as much as i say whats the next shoe going to drop? this idea of raising taxes and spending at the same time, people are starting to figure out it doesnt add up. >> jonas, there is a l...

By the -- the way they subsidize it is ridiculous. >> it hurts your engines? >> this study was sponsored by the petroleum industry. so i think we need to take it with a huge grain of salt. it doesnt prove its hurting all engines. toby, youre porsche is safe. between hurricane sandy and the drought in the midwest, we are losing $140 billion a year in environmental issues and this is something thats real. >> this doesnt help the environment. >> this doesnt help. >> sure t does. >> let me go to gar...

Theyre using it to fund their college educations, if you want to talk about, you know, why dont we go ahead and start complaining that too many people are driving on federal highways, that way we can make it feel like 99% of americans are on federal assistance. the fact of the matter is, its something like 25% of americans are on, you know, your classic sort of welfare, your hot lunches, your food stamps and just 7% of americans are getting, you know, what you call a real government handout. tho...

Dont end gradually, i go back to work and this is a payroll holiday. and this is going out of the paycheck, but going to somebodys paycheck at the villages in florida, and buying what other people. its unfortunate they cant get the imagery tax cut. it was borrowed money to have the payroll, to pay the social security they didnt cut in proportion. and get back to the point of economy long haul, it wont affect people because your wages will go up to adjust for the higher tax and it will hurt emplo...

Mean less spending and a weaker economy? hi, everyone, im brenda buttner, this is bulls and bears, here they are, the bulls and bears this week, gary b smith, tobin smith, jonas max ferris along with walker stableton and steffen, gary b. it turns out not just the rich, but the payroll tax hike smacking just about all workers, will it smack the economy next? >> i dont see how it cant, brenda. the person in that little clip summed it up perfectly. it makes a little bit of a difference and a little...

Degree is worth something, teaches you to speak, to write to think. >> when i talk to people in the technology industry, thats key. the pew center did a report on economic mobility, off the census 2010 and applied it towards this recession and clearly, the people who had graduate degrees, excuse me college degrees did substantially better than people who did not have degrees. >> gary b, youve paid a lot of college bills. >> yes, i did. i tell you what, brenda, i think for the vast majority of pe...