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And why does the stock market go up? it goes up because all the interest rates, the returns on more, on safer investments, u.s. government bonds, cd's, money market funds all of those rates are down. what happens, sophisticated investors go out and other investors go out and bid up more risky assets and you're forcing people to invest in more risky assets. why should a senior citizen have to roll his or her dice in the stock market? that's what they do. it also creates commodity inflation. oil prices go up when you bring rates down, and so do food prices, a lot of negative consequences. and re...

Because of all of the interest rates and returns on safer investments and u.s. government bonds and cd's and all of those rates are down. sophisticated investors go out and they bid up more risky assets. you are forcing people to invest in more risky assets. and that's what these moves do and creates commodity inflation. that's when the rubber meets the rod. and raise rates and create a recession. >> mike: charlie, you make a lot of sense. you should be in the government. but then he probably won't be because he does make a lot of

Because of all of the interest rates and returns on safer investments and u.s. government bonds and cd's and all of those rates are down. sophisticated investors go out and they bid up more risky assets. you are forcing people to invest in more risky assets. and that's what these moves do and creates commodity inflation. that's when the rubber meets the rod. and raise rates and create a recession. >> mike: charlie, you make a lot of sense. you should be in the government. but then he probably won't be because he does make a lot of

But how long is this going to last. i don't think maybe say you, a lot of people saw high double-digit increase in the price of pork and poultry products? >> i don't see it sustaining anytime soon. especially from a global perspective, china is having a shortage of picks and has to import more u.s. corn feed to feed their pork. it's a global phenomenon or global problem. >> neil: it's part of a bigger problem, the idea that food inflation is out there, commodity inflation is out there. people breathe a sigh of relief and gold comes down and silver comes down look no further than grocery store,...

Made a tact here with keeping rates low for two years, they're doing this now and i think they're regretting it. >> there's no way you can keep interest rates at zero and not have commodity inflation, just on the very-- just the logic of it. people are going to go out on the risk spectrum and buy commodities, that's what traders do. and so, it's completely absurd, you know, i don't know what's going through ben bernanke's head. i know he's a student of the depression and maybe feels we can go back into a depression-- >> ben bernanke is cocky and flip a switch it's like a game of chicken, he'll...