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A lot of people say to replicate that double-digit gains, could be a stretch. when you have record high after record high like we have been seeing, some kind of breather might be healthy. going into next year. here's the question. we have rising bond yields that. is a risk factor for next year. if they continue to rise and they pull back and taper, it is possible it could weigh on stocks. a number of people i spoke to is saying it's a tale of two halves. the first time they do fine, and if the treasury came around, that could mean we don't know. who knows. definitely high yield risk factor. >>...

A friday "money time." things have been going better. the economy -- there you go. the taper seemingly well played, ben bernanke and the markets making new highs but it's back to cause a potential disaster. do you know what i'm talking about? the dreaded debt ceiling. if congress fails to raise the debt ceiling and the government ends up gadefaulting is the wor case scenario. only a few weeks away, in a letter to congress, he said by using extraordinary measures to stretch our finances, he could wiggle the books a little bit. we currently estimate that through the use of these measures we woul...

News there is. and the good news for all of the problems of obama care is not all that trivial when it comes to the economy, because the economy -- the numbers from the third quarter show grew faster than previously reported. the stock market is up, the job -- the unemployment number is down and you can see the strategy already taking shape, which is going to be in the new year, starting to emphasize the better economic news. and the feds decision earlier this week to taper, tends to validate that because it suggests even the fed believes the kpi can stand on -- the economy can stand on its ow...

They talked about tapering and beginning to print less money, the market would react in panic. instead it soared. why? >> because they've gone from shooting heroin up four times a day, printing money, that's the functional equivalent, given a fake high to the markets and to the economy, they've gone from four times a day to like 3.99 times. this is barely a taper. remember, when you print money what, do you do? you buy bonds from the financial system, the government will buy those bonds, infuse the financial system with cash, okay. it's been doing this for a long time. but there is ramificatio...

>> so with the sky decidedly unfallen, let's bring in susan ox, senior fellow, to talk about the fed's decision and the economic outlook for the year. thanks for being with us. >> great to be here. >> so they announced the taper, backing off that stimulus spending. and the market sort of shrugged. >> they actually rallied. it was a positive response. there are really two reasons more that. the first one is this was mostly just a signaling measure by the fed that they think the economy is improving. so they look at a large variety of economic factors, not just the unemployment numbers and the t...