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The first step and can the economy, whatever growth we're seeing now, is already in the face of the headwinds of a convergence of our spending and our revenue and maybe not to the same place that some people would want it but maybe two-thirds there. >> two-thirds of the way to the target. >> and so all of the growth we see this year is in the face of that. in other words, we have already absorbed some of the consequences of normalization. the tapering of qe is not the first step. >> lloyd, let me ask you this. is it fair to make this, you know, kind of moral equivalence if you will? both parti...

>> worst week, barbara morgan spokesperson for the weiner campaign. she didn't help by adding her profanity-laced tirade to the conversation. >> that was really ugly. no doubt. morris, how about you? best and worst. >> the economy continues to move forward. you can cook these numbers any way it goes, but this speaks to why we need to have more qe until we create 200,000 jobs. on the worst week for me the u.s./russia relations. we've gone south. we need russia because of syria and iran and we need to get our act together and figure out a way to work with putin. >> susan, yours? >> the best week...

Of treasury note mortgage security buying to sort of provide a floor for these knuckleheads, lizzie, what's going on here? >> the thing is what is this now qe infinity and qe eternity? qe, money printing what it stands for. when are we going to get off that kick? >> apparently not any time soon. >> that's right. i'm thinking walking into your studio the markets have been dependent on central bank -- >> just occurred to you walking into the studio, you did no research coming in? >> no i did but you're so inspiring it just lit something in my head, so since the '80s, i mean, what, the central ba...

Now they're having some problems. in the past, the chinese government has always bailed out the state-owned banks. now they're sending the signal, there's a new guy in charge and saying, you know, we want to reform the system and one way to reform the system is to kind of let some of these financial institutions die and dry up. that is causing a certain amount of panic. >> dan, i want to talk about the invigorating thing that is quantitative easing and bring this back to the fed a little bit. "usa today" had a funny way to have putting this together saying, quote, and over the past 4 1/2 years...

Do because of the lack of qe, are we even in position, do investors have the tools within those programs to actually live in a world without qe? i think that's something that most investors don't understand. perhaps their brokerage firms don't have the computer programs to deal with this newfound phenomenon. >> i would take issue with that metaphor. strictly from what i'm told, marijuana makes people more mellow. again, what i'm told. qe, by contrast, has made people sort of hopped up because it's put all this easy money in there and let people take a lot of risks. the issue -- part of it is, ...