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Into the equation at the moment. that's earning season. we're waiting on our brands tonight that will come after market close here and the big question is are these companies going to deliver. that's what we're waiting and watching on. the expectations have been driven down. i think we're now expecting something around the 5.5%. back april first it was 10 to 10.2%. so you can see how the analysts have lowered their expectations. it's always a bit of a trick because companies have a low hurdle to step over. >> right. >> but the market will be waiting to see whether we can deliver on the growth ...

>> global stock markets fell monday as investors worried about a possible u.s. government shut down. the dow jones industrial average fell 129 points or .8%. the s&p 500 slid 10.2 points and the nasdaq dropped 10.12 or 4.3%. it would do the very thing republicans claim they are trying to stop. make the budget deficit worse. joining me now is josh green. the irony here is it is so thick that one does not know where to begin. shut down and cost taxpayers a total. what gives.

Heyday. it garnered the nickname electric city for the streetcars that ran through the center of town, but when the mine dried up, the prosperity dried up as well. scranton saw a resurgence in the '90s, but this day and age this town is struggling. >> scranton is not having a good time in terms of employment in the sense that our unemployment rate, the last that was published, the data came out of the state is standing around 9.2%. that's in june. which is higher than our state average. our state average is right now somewhere around 7.6, 7.5 last month. nationally, slightly better, 7.4. >> re...

Nickname the electric city pioneering the use of electric street cars. when coal lines dried up, so did prosperity. while national and statewide unemployment figures are working their which down, scranton is above both averages and still losing jobs. 9% unemployment in april jumped to 10.2% when the numbers came out in june. the remaining employers are mostly retail, hospitals and the colleges. one of them where president obama gave his talk about making tuition affordable. >> we can't price the middle class and everybody working to get in the middle class out of a college education. we're goi...

Think about that. in 2012 more than 1.8 million properties received foreclosure filings. currently more than one in five of all homeowners owe more on their property than the house is worth in outstanding mortgage debt. boy there are serious lessons that we learned in this housing crisis, bill, and you just want to be very careful. there is nothing wrong with renting a place. if that is what works for you in your financial situation, that is the best formula for you. bill: sometimes at your point in your life it is better to rent. martha: exactly. bill: get back to september of 1999 you see ho...