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Commentary After more than a decade of chained stimulus packages and extremely low rates, with trillions of dollars ...

And mutual funds track, 29%, the biggest jump since 1997. in a typical year you're looking at a gain closer to 8% for s&p 5 500. fed stimulus. the fed has been pumping billions of dollars a month. it will start pulling back on that. contrary to what we may have expected it hasn't spooked the market at all. it shows it has confidence that the economy looks like it could start to stand on its own and that gives investors confidence, too. as we begin the day, the dow is up 16 points. we will see how the dow does. even any minute gain for the dow, kyra, means yet another record high. kyra? >> alwa...

Any job at all and small business owners aren't doing very well. >> yeah. i'm going to bring in zani here because if you own your own home, you have a 401(k), you're benefiting from the fed stimulus, $85 billion into the economy. a generation of investors basically have been raised on all this money sloshing around and very low interest rates. so, the big question is when does all of that stop? >> i think that's absolutely right, and you're right to say that the economy has gotten better this year, but it's still a pretty weak recovery, and the big question i think is whether 2014 is going to ...

>> people complaining all the fed stimulus benefited people who already have mon, not those out there looking for a job. something the fed nominee janet yellen has really spoken a lot about. she wants the job market to improve. that's why you have two speeds. right? you've got a stock market doing well, a job market just starting to heat up. >> exactly. the big question that a lot people, particularly critics in the fed have, even though the fed has been really trying to do everything in its power for five years to get the economy back on track, all that we're really seeing evidence of is wall...

Yellen's confirmation that fed stimulus will continue despite reports and rumors of a paper possibly coming as soon as next month. but look, you want to sit down with a financial planner and think about how your investments should be lined up to prepare for the feds paper because it will come at some point and the fed stimulus has been propping up stocks. it'sing something to keep in mind. >> what goes up must come down inevitably. so you have to keep an eye on your 401(k). >> exactly. they are littered with fees. there are studies show a couple over a lifetime will pay upwards of $155,000 in ...