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>> you did a wonderful jobs and thanks to the ladies, just off camera, do we have a shot? >> thanks for the folks at hooters for coming by today. tomorrow's national wing day. >> clayton: yeah, go there and get great free wings at hooters location, join us on the after the show show. >> see you tomorrow. >> the economy slowing, consumers bumming. more u.s. companies warning and d.c. doing nothing. will the economy be stuck in uncertainty also lawmakers agree to prevent a massive tax hike? hi, i'm brenda buttner, this is bulls and bears. >> let's get to it. here they are the bulls and bears thi...

And it hasn't gone well so far this year. and we'll have to see if it works out. if it's secular trend and changing maybe i'll endorse it, i don't know if investors will. >> gary b, aren't they listening to the food police, but what people want, a demographic trend for healthier food. >> on the one hand, yes, per dave's point, if they're caving and structuring their menu to be politically correct, that's bad. but in this case, i give companies like mcdonald's, starbucks, wall street, credit for being, quite frankly, a lot smarter than the government. they're doing this to make more money, i th...

Be double or tripled out of the money they ask from the pipeline from alberta to british columbia to china, and call it the china pipeline. >> and gary b, is that going to raise some prices, do you think, in the end? >> oh, absolutely, brenda, oil is supply and demand and the thing that's baffling to me, i think every administration back to the truman administration has said, you know, we have to be oil independent, we have to at least get off the-- our dependency on the middle east. you have a country in canada, our closest allies for the last who knows you how long, has the second biggest oi...

Billion dollars a day and read this one, university of new york received 389,000 to pay residents in buffalo to find out how much malt liquor they drank, it sounds insane, but 100 and 1,000, if stimulus is stimulating, it would have worked. it clearly didn't work and the main reason it doesn't work for every good dollar that went to perhaps something worthwhile. we spend 8 or $9 that went to frivolous things. >> brenda: go ahead, gary. >> yeah, brenda, i want to go directly to the question you asked. and has stimulus gotten us anywhere. we have so far, since february 2009 spent three quarters ...

Goes back less and the third thing is they're so far behind in the way their 401(k)'s gone, excuse me, they're going to invest conservatively which is bad for the stock market. they're going to be buying bonds and low paying stuff and not stocks. >> brenda: but, gary, this might drive profits and might drive the markets? >> it could be good. i guess it depends on what part of the 401(k). if they're taking out more of there and not fund and it's doing anything and i took the money out and bought a chevy, in theory if a million of me did the same thing, bought chevy should help the price of gm s...