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Are the jobs, what is janet yellen do in terms of tapering? is this the right time to take that stimulus away and also big new names the white house said that stan fisher is going to be. we expected this but for someone like stan fisher who is a preeminent economist and ben bernankes these sis adviser, the fed is ramping up. >> i love fisher, studied his work for many years. hes kind of just one of these people unassumingly fantastic at what he does. he saved southeast asia during the crisis. it...

Think she will be in substance very similar to where the benangie fed was in style. she will be very calm, very considered, very well respected very fast. if, as seems now plausible, fisher is nominated to be her number two, its going to be a top notch team. its a tough thing to do. this shift from starting to taper to then indicating that youre going to continue to taper without scaring financial markets, they messed it up in 2013, the summer of 2013. the taper shock was in large part a communi...

Detapering. >> shell be similar to where the bernanke fed was. in style, shell be calm and considered and very well respected very fast and if as seems plausible her number two will be a top notch team there. i think that its a tough thing to do. this shift from starting to taper to then indicating that youll continue to taper without scaring financial markets, they messed it up in 2013. summer of 2013. taper shot was a misstep by the fed. they did the introduction of actual taper this month ext...

Kyle, happy new year to you. so looking into your own crystal ball is ben bernanke right? >> well, you know, kelly, i hate be to the bearer of tough news, but the reality is, is that i think that the economy in 2013 has been artificially stimulated by extremely low interest rates. i think ben bernanke did the best job he could to keep rates at a point that matched what main street was telling him. new, as of this last quarter, we saw a bit of bernanke. hes getting ready to leave office and janet...

Nickname helicopter ben. critics say the easy money is fueling risky investments, but unwinding stimulus will not be easy and could upset world markets. >> we have now reared an entire generation of investors that have become dependent on qe to buy stocks. >> reporter: the jury is still out on bernankes tenure at the fed, but after such an eventful economic journey, hes earned the right to do something a little less stimulating. maggie lake, cnn, new york. >> i love the picture of ben bernanke i...

Seeing tapering by the fed, which is a sign of confidence in the real economy, should lead them to invest, to hire and to be more confident into the future of the u.s. economy. >> how low do you see unemployment going in this country? >> two things. unemployment will continue to go down. its around 7%. its likely to move towards, you know, the high 6 but certainly will continue to move down. most importantly, what we need to see is a higher participation rate. participation means the number of p...

Because seeing a budget deal, seeing tapering by the fed, which is a sign of confidence in the real economy, should lead them to invest, to hire and to be more confident into the future of the u.s. economy. >> how low do you see unemployment going in this country? >> two things. unemployment will continue to go down. its around 7%. its likely to move towards, you know, the high 6 but certainly will continue to move down. most importantly, what we need to see is a higher participation rate. parti...

There habgos bee has been good n by congress to eliminate the fear about the budget and reduce the sequestration. we see the fed having taken some very well communicated action concerning the tapering of the program, and those are good signs, in addition to which we see some good numbers. growth is picking up and unemployment is going down. so all of that gives us a much stronger outlook for 2014, which brings us to raising our forecast. >> so you talk about the fed tapering. what does that mean...

Observe that the economy has picked up. we forecast further pickup in 2014. second, most people who invest, who hire will tell you that they are uncertain. they were uncertain. because seeing a budget deal, seeing tapering by the fed, which is a sign of confidence in the real economy, should lead them to invest, to hire and to be more confident into the future of the u.s. economy. >> how low do you see unemployment going in this country? >> two things. unemployment will continue to go down. its ...

Gdp. weve got unemployment down at 7%. weve got tapering now under way and going to go right the way through 2014. weve got a stock market thats at an all-time high and is probably not a bubble. its frothy, not a bubble. factor all that in, and you end up with not exactly a rosy scenario, but let me put it as a comfortable scenario. >> frothy but not a bubble. that makes me want a beer. all right. i want to ask you about another big story coming out of russia. and that is vladimir putin letting ...