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Detapering. >> she'll be similar to where the bernanke fed was. in style, she'll be calm and considered and very well respected very fast and if as seems plausible her number two will be a top notch team there. i think that it's a tough thing to do. this shift from starting to taper to then indicating that you'll continue to taper without scaring financial markets, they messed it up in 2013. summer of 2013. taper shot was a misstep by the fed. they did the introduction of actual taper this month extremely well. so far so very good. they convinced markets that tapering is not tightening. the te...

Of getting rehired next year. the long term unemployed still face the same problems. congress may reinstate recession long term benefits in the year. the minimum wage will rise in 13 states, but not as high as the $15 an hour that legions of low paying workers are vying for. the stock market may not return as richly as it did in 2013 as the taper is finally here. and mortgage rates will likely rise. will that end the recovery and home prices? probably not. rates are still below the post are world war ii 6.5%. it may spur banks to lending more freely to first time home buyers. expect low single...

I don't see anything in the record of janet yellen to say she's the one who's now going to stop all the money printing. they're talking about a taper. this is a teeny tiny little baby step toward less intervention in the markets. >> the taper is -- fewer bond purchases by the federal reserve and janet yellen is going to be ben bernanke's successor at the federal bank. you worry if they start to taper more aggressively, that's when the markets might get shaky? >> i think this year -- i would expect a good year for the markets and the history says based on last year, after that kind of an increa...

The sidelines. there's still $2 trillion sitting on the market. they want to be involved in this market, right? so where do you go? do you go in stocks potentially with big games? >> no. do you sit in a money market making money? no. there's so many individual investors that missed out on this big rally. >> they certainly have reacted well to a so-called taper which was supposed to be the end of the big bull run. michael, let me bring you in. you think for the year stocks are actually going to finish low lower. i want to argue with you a little bit. you got 200 thousand-plus jobs created in th...

With the recovering economy, the minimum wage debate won't fade. the stock market may not return as richly as it did in 2013 as the taper is finally here, and mortgage rates will likely rise. will that end the recovery in home prices? probably not. rates are still well below the post-world war ii average of 6%, and higher rates may spur banks into lending more freely to first-time buyers. i'm on the record. that's my forecast for 2014. >> thanks very much, christine. coming up, martini, whiskey, beer? what you drink actually says a lot about your personal politics. we'll tell you why. and ...