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What happened right after that, but the biggest buyer of stocks over the past five years has been corporations. and what's been happening is with interest rates being very low, corporations are taking that free money and buying their own shares back. and so that makes their profitability look better, which makes their stock price go up. so it's a little bit of an illusion and a game and you're going to continue to see more of that in 2018 driven by this tax but, but you are going to see stocks continue to go up for a little bit. >> so i've been doing my research on this. the president likes to...

>> bret: new home sales sky rocketed last month. sales up 17.5%. the fastest pace in more than 25 years. experts say the supply shortage of existing homes as americans turn to newly built dwelling. stocks down today. the dow lost 28 and the s&p 500 lost 1. the dow finished almost a half percentage point for the week. the nasdaq grew a 3rd. >> ♪ >> ♪ >> bret: whatever happened to? occupy wall street? joyce tweeted in to ask. did they dissolve, evolve? did they accomplish anything? the short answer they are gone. occupy wall street memory and message still lingers.

At the lowest point in the day, the dow down 350 points but look like it's going to close .2% lower. most of that caused by the fact that michael flynn pled guilty to lying to the fbi, and just the uncertainty of potential of future implications. towards the end of the sessions, stocks pairing the losses in a larger context. we have seen an extraordinary run this year so far. the dow is up 22% year to date. s&p 500 up 17.5% to date. a lot of this run-up in the past few weeks is due to this idea that tax reform will pass. you highlighted it, neil. senate republicans close to holding a vote. man...

Of our economy and did so successfully. >> jarthank you for your time h. dana, i ran a small business for 13 years before i went into full-time politics. i will tell you that running a business is hard. i appreciate your integrity and your effort. our plan gives you about a 17.5% break so you can hire more folks, invest more capital into killed your business. our plan doesn't repeal, does not repeal the estate tax. that is a false statement. the truth is that your 18 employees under our plan will have more opportunities to see retirement go up, health care becomes better for you guys to be abl...

>> bernie sanders, the independent vermont senator who captured 43% of democratic primary votes last year portrayed the party is doomed if it does not expand to include unaffiliated voters. >> say to young people overwhelmingly are independent. working people, we don't want you to come into the democratic party, it's totally absurd. it's a recipe for failure. >> democrats are disagreeing over how to interpret the data from the elections they won last week. this week, a number of analysts observing the party did not show strong growth outside of traditional democratic strongholds such as big ci...