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Terms. >> you said that in february, that hasnt happened. >> im worried because the federal reserve is going to start tapering. theyre going to go back to start normalizing their policy. interest rates have a tendency to rise under those situations and that makes our fiscal situation even worse. im very worried about it. there are two ways of tackling this fiscal problem. one, grow the economy, get people back to work through solid economic growth. two, do this type of comprehensive entitlement ...

Is improving. lead something to believe the economy is strong enough to stand on its own and that the fed will taper sooner rather than later. two third of economists dont think tapering will begin into early next year. about a third say the second quarter of next year. the upcoming week also brings big economic reports on gdp, existing home sales and manufacturing. and finally, well learn this week if minimum wage in washington, d.c. will jump to 11.50 an hour by 2016. the city council is set t...

We have a debt crisis ahead of us, and if we dont face these right now, we have to face the kind of austerity theyre imposing in greece. were saying lets fix this now while we can do it on our own terms. >> you said that in february, that hasnt happened. >> im worried because the federal reserve is going to start tapering. theyre going to go back to start normalizing their policy. interest rates have a tendency to rise under those situations and that makes our fiscal situation even worse. im ver...

Claims and retail sales. yesterday a tough day on wall street down across the board, almost 130 points in the dow, the nasdaq and the s&p, largest losses in over a month. lets go to cnbcs steve sedgwick live in london. >> good day. market sales could fear tapering and the upset of it. jpmorgan, they have come to a deal with federal authorities, going to cost around $2 billion, this result in the ponzi scheme run by bernie madoff, five years ago he was arrested. jpmorgan agreed to a deferred pros...

>> thats what kept interest rates low. >> exactly. part of it. and they talked about tapering, pulling back on the bond buying early last year. the interest rates soared. so there is reason to be a little adverse about that. >> annie, who gets credit for this? >> so i think this is just the economy finally getting into kind of a self sustaining recovery years after the recession. its worth noting even if the recovery picks up and growth gets stronger, were still really, really far from an econom...

Washington over the budget. we cant go down the same path we did in october and shut the government down. >> they seem united in their ability to not close it so well see. >> and the other hurdle is the federal reserve. the federal reserve is going to begin pulling back on its bond-buying program, and, you know, that could be a little tricky as well. >> thats whats kept interest rates low. >> exactly. >> essentially. >> its part of it. and they talked about tapering -- so-called tapering, pullin...

Quickly but long-term unemployed have trouble finding work. >> its its lower than 9% but it should be 6, 5, 4, that would be a lot better. 200,000 jobs is good. the last few months weve been seeing positive jobs. its been going on. take a look at wall street. they are thrilled right now but whats going on. when president bush took office, the dow jones was about 7,000. now its 16,000. thats pretty impressive. >> thats very impressive. im not one who tracks dow daily as eight caer of the economy....

Get in on this economic recover and, i guess, profit from it, the place to be is really stocks. the dow up by about 120 points. but what the market liked about this job report, was really the unemployment rate. that was the key surprise. down to 7%. the fed has said they want to see an unemployment rate as low as 6.5%. were probably going to be seeing tapering at some point soon. long-term investors are certainly buying in at this level. but we do know that tapering is probably an inhe have that...

Considerably so. but its not healed yet. and weve had a bad habit of removing counter cyclecal policy too soon. seeing green chutes through rose colored glasses as i commented earlier. it hurts on the mortgage rate side. they went up a lot when they talked of tapering a lot before and that could affect middle income people. >> peter, one of the most urgent issues facing washington, weve got some news of congress working its way towards the budget deal with the budget deadlines looming and part o...

Didnt sell off for fear the fed was going to do some party-pooping. >> well, neil, charles is right. for the last three and a half years the market respond to the federal reserve. more booze in the purpose bowl, the market goes higher. talk about taking it away, talking about slowing down the stimulus program, the market reacts. this year as the interest rate mick tour has become more 0 and more of a question mark as the federal reserve boards starts to talk about tapering, the market has been u...