sny, a buy. >> stephanie link? >> i like cennametal. >> that does it for us. more "fast money" tonight at 5:00. follow me on twitte twitter @scottwapnercnbc. stocks hit another high, up across the board. "power lunch" right now. >> "halftime" is over. the second half of your trading day begins now. well, despite all the communicating from the fed, they do seem to be bending over backwards to make their message clear. still lots of questions though about the bernanke plan. our senior economics reporter steve liesman with real solid insight. he's going to explain. that is straight ahead. netflix reporting quarterly numbers after the bell today. our julia boorstin is going to moderate netflix's analyst call and see what they will ask the executives when we talk to her in three minutes time, a big point. 1:30 eastern time, a "power lunch" special. we'll focus object growing great

divide. as stocks soar much of the country is still in troubling straits. at what point does name pact the stock market, and at what point does it threaten capitalism? first though to sue at the new york stock exchange. sue? >> good to see you, ty. gold is having a pretty big day after a pretty good week. we're back above the 1,300 mark in gold, right now it's traded up 30 bucks and change. everybody is watching the interest rate, ten-year note at 2.48% and modest gains for stocks pretty much across the board with the dow up 14 points. the s&p up 3 and the nasdaq up 11 and the russell up 3 points, but investors, us a mentioned, do remain focused on the fed. the fed holds a two-day meeting next tuesday and wednesday, taper talk and easing of the stimulus, if you will, will be the hot topic, so now to new insights on what the fed may be thinking ahead of next week's

two-day meeting. here's senior economics reporter steve liesman. >> after two months of volatility surrounding the announcement of intentions to taper, fed officials now turn their attention to how it will actually taper if that's what they decide to do in september. their hope doing it in a way that doesn't cause the market volatility that we saw the past two months. fed officials are likely to discuss everything from how much to taper and most importantly how to communicate those intentions to the market. to answer all these questions including whether to taper at all will be tied to the economic outlook. fed chairman suggested last week the fed still holds out hope of a second half rebound. that could prompt the fed to reduce its monthly purchases. if the fed does taper in september, amounts could range from $10 billion to $20 billion. you can see the fed has added $660 billion to the balance sheets since october. it's unlikely to believe the actual amount that matters very much for interest rates. it's the cumulative effect or market expectations that matter. how much the market believes the

fed will reduce its purchasing over time so the fed is going to think hard about the signals sent by the amount of tapering and the frequency. for example, it could taper every other month and adjust the amount based on incoming data. ultimately fed officials hope the act of tapering will be less dramatic than the announcement of tapering, but that is far from sure. tyler? >> netflix, as we were just mentioning, reporting after the bell today. the stock is up 221% in a year. it's been a wild ride if you've owned that stock for several years. last three months the stock is up 50%. got to like that. after the company reports like most companies, it will hold an analyst call. that is today, but this one is a little different. it is going to be hosted by our very own julia boorstin, unpaid, of course, at netflix request. cnbc accepted the invitation to help make that call more accessible to the palate of investors. to ask the root question. why do you think they invited

you, of all people? >> they invited me an analyst, btig analyst rich greenfield. i've been covering netflix for a decade now. i've first interviewed reed hastings back when i was a reporter at "fortune" magazine, been covering the company for a long time and they asked me to do it because they wanted me to bring a different perspective. typically in analyst calls, they consist of analysts calling in and having a very simple staged q&a and limited to the wall street perspective, but we've been soliciting questions from any investors. received e-mails from questions with a very broad range of investors, people who are interested in investing in the stock, to those who may have 10 or 100 or 200 shares, to institutional investors, even hedge funds who in an analyst call traditionally would be afraid to call in with their questions because they wouldn't want to reveal their position or what their approach is to the stock so the idea here is to real make it an open call and

have a pretty wide range of represent perspectives represented? they have put no restrictions on anything can you ask, no restrictions on whom can you recognize and the questions you can bring into the conversation, is that true? >> that's right, tyler. no restrictions at all. in fact, one of the reasons why they wanted me to do this is so we could ask follow-up questions. traditionally with analyst calls, very much a question and answer format. here i can ask as many followups as i like. >> julia, good luck. we'll be listening in and we'll live stream that call on cnbc.com. it's the netflix analyst call. that's this evening at 6:00 p.m. eastern time. meantime let's analyze as we do in earnings edition, welcome to j.j. burns. it's funny how you found that name. he's going to start with netflix. the, as we just mentioned, j.j., coming out after the bell. analysts expect 40 cents a share and 1.027 billion in revenue.

the company obviously an impressive year. the best performing stock in the s&p 500. do you like it? there's the chart right behind you at 266.39. >> i would really caution investors at this point that the challenging environment could be very much ahead of it. when you really take a look at netflix right now, you're looking at 85 times multiple. >> a pe of 88 is usually an invitation for trouble down the road. >> certainly caution into the wind but more importantly you have to take a look at the real tax numbers of what netflix is going towards. that's the customer base. 34% amount of people that are in the business already of broad band and 88 million subscribeers is what netflix has. 134 million broadband house holds out there so how much more is there on the upside? >> it will shock you and america to learn that my 20-year-old son doesn't all the time watch cnbc. he watches netflix, and they

have some hot series in addition to the "arrested development" and others that they are taking to the bank. let's move on and taking to the bank mcdonald's, missing analyst estimates. we have to put in the fast food chain. people know what america is, they know it's a fast food. >> 1.38 per share. analysts expected 1.40 per share, a two-penny miss and stocks selling down, down 2.75%. what do you think of mcdonald's? >> like mcdonald's on a pullback. own for long-term portfolios, pretty competitive with the s&p. not knowing what's going to happen with the fed taper and the slow growth environment, are we pushing into a rapid growth environment in the economy? mcdonald's has performed handsomely well through a time growth and certainly something to buy on a pullback. >> and the last one, halliburton beatinging the street earning 73 cents a share. exclusioning items. take a look at the stock. what the halliburton is going on

you? like it? >> it's all that gum. >> gum? >> time. >> their gum has gone down, the substance that they put into fracking, a substance which is in a lot of food. gone up from $1 to $12 to get this substance to actually do fracking. that's come down. halliburton is a real big industry leader, also done very, very well to -- to crimp its costs. we think it's a really good long-term buy and will outperform the markets. >> j.j. burns, thank you very much. sue, down to you. >> apple's main website for developers remains shut after hackers tried to steal sensitive information. the tech giant now forced to overhaul its database and its server software to prevent future breeches. seeing more and more government agent significance under hack attacks. what is the real cost of the attacks to the american economy? eamon javers is here with the

latest. what do they tell you? >> reporter: been one of the long running questions in the world of cyber crime. how much does it actually cost? a little bit like the drug trade. you know it's out there and you know it's bad, but you don't know exactly how much damage it's doing because it's illegal. now the folks over at csi, the center for strategic and international studies, a think tank here in washington backed by money from mcafee have done a new study, and they calculated the number and here is the graphic. about $100 billion annual hit to the u.s. economy, according to csis. they have done this by comparing cyber crime to other kind of crime. 508,000 jobs lost on an annual basis, and they say the economic impact here is similar to that have car crashes which they peg at 99 to 168 billion a year and pilferage, that's what happens when stuff falls off the back of the truck, $70 billion to $280 billion and these guys have rejected the survey model and

have gone with a comparison model to try to come up with this number but even csis says it's a rough guess, and their estimate is a little lower than some of the other estimate out there in other places. a very hard number to get your arm around, but they are saying around 100 billion. tyler? >> thanks very much, eamon javers. still following a developing story involving the amusement park operator six flags. an investigation is continuing into the death of a woman who fell from a 14-story roller coaster near dallas over the weekend. separately six flags also missing wall street estimates on its profits this morning and the shares are under pressure, presumably from both of those matters. jackie d'angelis is following the story for us. >> reporter: good afternoon, tyler. a tragic accident on six flags friday evening. a 52-year-old woman was thrown from the ride throwing her to her death. she expressed concern about her

safety restraint to the attendant before the ride story, a 14-story high roller coaster and right now the park is open but the texas giant is closed as six flags investigates the matter. james reed anderson addressed the issue up front as soon as the company's earnings call started this morning saying that management joined the call with heavy hearts as they are working through this tragic event. now six flags second quarter earnings did miss the markets, the company citing bad weather in the east and also midwest as issues were dampening that attendance rate. some analysts expressing concern that this accident could have a chilling effect for six flags and other theme parks next quarter. the international association of amusement parks and attractions say the likelihood of being seriously injured on a ride is 1 in 24 million but this particular park saw an accident on a water ride that killed one person in 1999. just this weekend at a cedar

point park in ohio seven people were injured when a boat flipped over due to a ride malfunction so clearly a lot of issues to look into, sue. >> absolutely. thank you so much, jackie. appreciate it. there's been flash flooding in arizona forcing rescue workers to be on their toes. incredible video. more of it coming up in two minutes time. plus, detroit's bankrupt could have major ramifications for the art world, our wealth editor robert frank is on the story for us. >> detroit owns some of the most valuable artworks in the world including pieces by diego riva and rodin, and some worry it could be sold after the bankruptcy and more on the collection, the controversy and the beautiful paintings after the break. >> at 1:30 eastern time, the great divide. stocks are soaring, but unemployment and underemployment remain serious problems. at what point will that start to impact the markets? we want to hear from you today

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not the only ones that needed help. crews across the area rescuing stranded drivers caught up in those fast-moving floodwaters. sue? >> wow, ty, amazing video. the economy is front and center for president obama this week as he hits the road in a campaign-style tour of the midwest. it comes ahead of some key battles over the federal budget and the deficit ceiling. wednesday the president will lay out his agenda to revive the u.s. economy, and we have a very special edition of "power lunch" that's coming up in just a couple of minutes to address, that calling that the great divide because while stocks have been doing quite well hitting record highs, unemployment is still a huge problem and many americans are hurting. we have forever been split into two economies perhaps. that's what some are saying, the investor class and everybody else and when will that hit stocks and perhaps capitalism. all of that is straight ahead? >> ty, an interesting conversation at roughly half past the hour. by now you know that detroit has filed for bankruptcy protection

and a fight is already forming and it's going to be a furious one over one of the city's most prized collections of art in detroit. robert frank has been covering the story for us. robert? >> you know the art that's owned by the city of detroit, it's estimated to be worth at least $1 billion. some say it could be worth more than $2 billion. collection of the detroit institute of art includes a van gogh that could be worth more than $100 million alone. collection includes this rembrandt from 1640 called "the visitation," very famous piece and a classic monet from 1886. the institute has works by picasso, matisse, you name, it they probably got t.emergency manager kevyn orr asked for an indiana ven try of the museum saying everything is on table in this bankruptcy. christy's, the auction house, sent a team there in may and the talk of selling this has sparked an outrage from groups and museums. they say the collection is held

in the public trust for the public and has to be protected. ultimately this will be up for the courts to decide. a tough decision, do you want picassos or your pension? that's what it may come down to, very interesting choice. >> yes. >> the s&p 500 has hit another all-time high and is goldman sachs artificially raising the price of aluminum? >> stocks are near record highs, but unemployment and underemployment are serious issues weighing down the american economy. does the great divide threaten capitalism in the usa? go vote in today's finance.yahoo.com poll. results are coming up on "power lunch." i want to make things more secure.

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the s&p 500 hit an all-time high a bit earlier. bob pisani follows stocks down here on the floor of the new york stock exchange. for the bulls, a good way to start monday. >> and for all of the complaints about crummy earnings growth. >> right. >> that nobody wants, 2% or 3% and slow global growth, we are seeing tremendous amount of money continuing to come into the stock market. take a look at the dow industrials. my point here is last week we had numbers indicating that there was huge inflows into stocks and that's continuing, best we've had since the beginning of the year. would be up even more if not for mcdonald's. that's costing them 20 points. take a look at home builders. people were disappointed on the existing home sales numbers. lennox international, one of the

biggest numbers of heating and air conditioning. knock them out of the park numbers. lennox international at an historic high. pay more attention to a company like lennox international than the existing home sale numbers. they said residential as well as commercial was strong and both in replacement and new construction as well. weak dollar, gold stocks and commodity stocks, you can see the steel numbers, and bhp billiton. regained almost all the losses from the month of june. don't go out and sell everything because they are down. they are all coming back. >> true. >> let's go uptown to the nasdaq where seema mody is following some of the big movers over there. hi, seema. >> tracking the moves in google and microsoft, both of which fell sharply on friday due to disappointing earnings. analysts voicing attorney that the two giants have not been able to keep up with the fast evolving industry. other winners are in the biotech

space, moving to the upside. on the losing side, yahoo! shares moving to the downside. billionaire hedge fund investor dan loeb is selling his stake and is resigning from its board of directors. sue? >> time to focus on the metals market. prices getting set to close and sharon epperson is track the action for us at the nymex. >> reporter: risen pretty strongly in this session, up more than $40 and right near 1,338 an ounce, a pretty big move in the gold market. a lot has to do with, as bob mentioned, the weaker dollar and seeing some institutional buying and physical demand coming back in asia and not that much volume so this is on lighter volume if this run-up has occurred. a lot of short covering in this marketplace and can you see that from the latest cftc commitment of trader report showing the number of net longs in this market and in terms of what we're seeing here just in the last two weeks the rally really

underscores the importance of short covering in the run-up that we've seen. sue, back to you. >> sharon, before we let you go, the "new york times" reporting over the weekend that goldman sachs is running a scheme to artificially inflate aluminum prices by basically buying up warehouses and most metal around between the warehouses, increasing, incremently, the delivery time to customers and the rent collected to store the metal. i assume they are talking about that on the floor today, and if so, what are they telling you? >> you assume correctly we're talking about it today and have been for some time. nothing new for the metals traders, something they know has been occurring and it's very interesting that this article came out and the people are really focusing on this as the senate banking committee is about to hold hearing tomorrow looking at whether or not banks should actually own warehouses, oil refiners and power plants, so also the federal reserve reportedly looking into whether the 2003 rule that allowed them

to have these warehouses, if that's even -- should still be in effect so all of this is coming at a very interesting time and metals traders are watching very carefully and energy traders as well. >> thank you, sharon, very much. >> let's take a look at the interest rate scenario in today's trading session because that is being watched very closely down here. the 2.5% mark is really key to traders, watch that very carefully, dipped below it on today's housing data. the taper talk is out there once again, some saying perhaps that talk of tapering, not tightening, but tapering was premature last week. they will put a lot of emphasis on the fed meeting next week, a two-day meeting and we will, too, of course. that's the bond market report. ty, up to you. >> thanks very much. a very special half hour of "power lunch" still ahead. >> at 1:30 eastern today "the great divide." stocks are soaring, but unemployment and underemployment remain serious problems.

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>> even the great american housing market is in recovery mode. >> household formation and job growth, trump interest rates. >> but today we're looking beyond stocks and past wall street towards the rest of america. we're looking at jobs that have been lost and aren't coming back. we're asking how long can the rally roll on while a good part of the american economy is in stall mode? at what point do all those lost jobs start creating big problems for the rest of the country? this is a special edition of

"power lunch," "the great divide." >> good afternoon, everybody, and welcome. i'm tyler mattson along with sue here herera. >> we're looking outside the investor class to see how the rest of america is doing. >> and in some cases as you probably all know it's not so good. our question is at what point will that take a toll on the rising stock market? >> we have a series of reports today profiling different sectors where stocks are doing well but the people dependant upon those sectors are not. diana olick is in washington reporting on the rise in home building stocks while many homeowners remain underwater on their mortgages. jane wells is in el segundo, california, where stocks are at an all-time high but unemployment also remeans high. no sector represents the great divide though like the auto sector. shares of gm and ford both up about 80% in the last year, but detroit just went bankrupt and thousands of jobs last in the

auto sector during the downturn probably will never return. and that's where we begin, with phil lebeau in twinsburg, ohio, just outside of cleveland. phil? >> reporter: sue, this rubble and old abandoned building, that's all that's left of a chrysler stamping plant that shut down in 2010. we are in the heart of auto alley, and here in the upper midwest a lot of cities have started to rebound with the auto industry, but here in twinsburg they are learning to adjust and to move on without the auto industry. >> keith mcqueen is still a chrysler man even though he's no longer a chrysler employee. three years after the automaker shut down its stamping plant in twinsburg, ohio, mcqueen hasn't forgotten the job he loved. >> like a lifelong job to get in there and once he did i had made it. >> reporter: but mcqueen and 1,260 others lost their job when chrysler went bankrupt in 2009.

>> we had some people that really got hurt by this. >> reporter: as twinsburg wrestled with higher unemployment chrysler went through chapter 11 and started adding jobs at its remaining plants. >> we're able to add a second shift. >> we're investing a total of $374 million. >> we're going to be adding 1,100 jobs more to this plant. >> reporter: while chrysler is running near capacity and is expected to continue adding jobs around the country, it's unlikely the automaker will return to twinsburg with the new plant. >> as they ramp up production, they will hire additional workers in the plant but won't build new plants for the foreseeable future. >> reporter: so the city of 18,000 is trying to move on without chrysler. >> we're struggling. at once big is struggling. >> i could always look up my back door and see chrysler, and it's not there now and devastating to me. >> reporter: pollutioning the plant meant losing income tax revenue of $2.2 million, 12% of the city's annual revenue.

to make up the loss twinsburg residents raised their income taxes and the city is redeveloping the old chrysler site with new companies. >> we have a ways to go yet to be completely recovered, but we've made great progress. i'm tremendously optimistic. i'm a planner. i have to be optimistic. >> keith mcqueen is also optimistic. he started/own company cleaning corporate offices. he estimate it will be three years before he earns what he made at chrysler, but he's no longer bitter about the auto industry leaving him and twinsburg behind. >> and so i've already run the gambit of being very angry, very bitter, to now i'm at a point to where i've got to move on with your life. >> reporter: another sign that twinsburg is moving on. a new food distribution company moved into a portion what have used to be the land for the chrysler stamping plant.

the owners of this property, by the way, tyler and sue, saw all of this rubble and new businesses will start to move into this area by the end of this summer, slowly but surely twinsburg is getting back on its feet without the auto industry. guys, back to you. >> phil, thank you so much. now to the aerospace and defense sector at record highs. the index is up 46% in the last year, and look at the gains for just this year for northrup, up 30%, lockheed up 25% and general dynamics 21%, but for defense workers they are not doing as well. automation and cuts by the pentagon taking its toll. jane wells live outside el segundo outside of los angeles for us. >> reporter: el segundo was built on defense, a lot of history here. i've had family who has worked in the industry but today defense secretary hagel saying the costs run sustainable. more cuts are coming and many fear they will join those who have no pay at all.

the u.s. defense industry is doing amazing things in the face of budget cuts, landing the first unmanned plane on an aircraft carrier. building a jet so advance it had could dominate the skies for the next half century, stock prices are surging higher, boosting the market and making shareholders happy. joseph thomas isn't one of them. >> i've had to restrap the gas tank. it had a ratchet strap holding it up. >> reporter: he's the other side of the defense industry driving a beat up old truck on craigslist for 700 buck. >> i ended up here. >> reporter: at ft. drum where he transitions into a job fixing computers and like all civilian employees on base this father of two is furloughed one day a week without pay. >> i tried to get a part-time job at local repair stairs. nobody could take me saying they

couldn't afford it. >> reporter: the cuts are being felt in the local community and one in five families are impacted. >> they will sometimes attach notes saying, you know, this is what's happening to me. i'm a part of sequestration and can you help? >> everyone says don't worry, you'll ride it through. maybe, maybe not. >> reporter: darlene jeffords is a medical administrator on base with a big gap to cover. >> between $650 and $700 a month. i don't have that kind of discretionary spending in my budget. >> tomorrow is my first furlough day. >> reporter: the police chief heads the union here and is taking on a second job checking i.d.s at a local bar and asked his mortgage company for a break. >> i have a secret security clearance. if my credit rating drops too far it could impact, that and if i lose my clearance i lose my job. ♪ furlough friday >> reporter: some are trying to vent through humor.

one group at the pentagon even held a furlough friday five-mile run that only went four due to budget cuts. furloughs are better than layoffs which are happening in small batches at almost every defense contractor in the country. the cuts are needed to keep the companies healthy and profitable, though at a price. >> this is just going to hurt everybody. it's not going to be nice. >> reporter: of course, sometimes have you to cut jobs to save jobs. the brunt of this is being borne by the public sector. defense contractors tell us they have made minimal cuts so far and expect to do more. we should get information on that with this week's earnings call. lockheed martin reports tomorrow and lockheed stocks he hadding a new 52-week high. back to you >> thank you so much. every day we hear housing is coming back. the segment is hyenas mortgage rates are rising and many home building stocks are on a tear in the last year. diana olick, as you know, covers real estate for cnbc and joins us live now in washington.

diana? >> reporter: well, sue, you're right, the housing bulls are out in force. even if the numbers don't always support them. we learned today existing home sales in june full unexpectedly due to still tight supply. why are there so few listings out there? because so many potential homeowners, buyers who might want to move up are stuck in place, owing more on their mortgages than their homes are worth. this as the big banks and big build remembers back to bringing in big profits for wall street. david and heather built their oregon home in 2005 at the height of the housing boom. >> we're under water because our timing is outstanding. >> reporter: value of their home was cut in half by the housing crisis. as their family grows, so, too, does their need for more space, so they are now adding extra principal to their monthly mortgage payment. >> we're doing what we can to dig our way out of the hole the

old-fashioned way. >> reporter: they thought about walking away. >> i think from a character standpoint that's not an option for us. >> reporter: as littlejohns dig the stocks of the nation's home builders soar, up over 200% from the bottom in the spring of 2009. even with housing starts still well below normal levels, wall street is buying into the builders. >> i think we're in nirvana for housing. >> i feel buying a home the best investment that any individual can make. >> reporter: about 10 million underwater borrowers and millions more in a near negative equity position don't have that option and every day david littlejohn, a financial planner, watches wall street beaming all the way from oregon. >> pretty clear, emphasize repeatedly, that when rates go up you'll make a ton of money. >> i have a bit of animosity towards the way the situation was handled at times. i do think the taxpayer bailed

out a lot of banks, i'm a taxpayer. in many respects i've honored my contract the entire time through, and i look at it and go, well, wait a second here, why am i left with my nose against the glass? why don't i get the puppy? >> reporter: it's not just the underwater borrowers, the first time home buyers as well. usually make up between 40% and 45% of the market. today they are just at 29% because of tight lending and all that cash competition. back to you, sue. >> thank you very much, diana, and thank you to phil and jane as well. at this point, although there are some hopeful signs which phil gave us, it's really clear, ty, there's a lot of economic pain in the country right now. >> absolutely the case, and a lot of economists who tell us more and more we're becoming a country with basically two economies, so our question today in this half hour is how sustainable in the long term is that because we're all part of the same economy really when you get right down to t.former chairman of the federal reserve, sue, alan greenspan, warned

about this several times while he was in office. in 2007 he said, quote, income inequality is where the capitalist system is most vulnerable. you can't have the capitalist system if an increasing number of people think it is unjust. next on this special half hour edition of "power lunch," two economists with answers on what will happen to the stock market and to the social fabric if the great divide divides the country even further. plus, you can't have a show like this but the our senior economics reporter steve liesman who is reporting on the great divide between capital and labor and what history tells us. steve? >> that's right, tyler. used to be this kind of divide self-corrected but we might be writing a new piece of history here. that's next on "power lunch." stocks are near record highs and unemployment and underemployment are serious issues weighing down the american economy. does the great divide threaten

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hi. ♪ we are farmers bum - pa - dum, bum - bum - bum - bum♪ earlier we asked with stocks near record highs and unemployment still serious issues, does the great divide threaten capitalism in the united states? 29% of you say, yes, it does. 34% say no. capitalism will always be the american way and 37% i guess splice the difference saying something must be done to help the middle class. an impolicist criticism of the way the economy is working today. welcome back to the special edition of "power lunch." the great divide. reporting on how well wall street is doing and how poorly some parts of the american economy are faring and we're asking the question at what point will that affect the stock market and social fabric.

two economists who have done a lot of work on that question and they will be with us in a moment. first though steve liesman on what to learn from the history of economics in this way. why wall street seems to be doing well and why this has been going on for a while. globalization is one of them. had a massive edition of labor. hundreds of millions and no increase in consumer demand. decline of onions year. capital holds all the cards and why the returns to capital have been greater than the returns to labor. >> workers do not seem to be training for the veil jobs. technology, we've always had

technological development but if really different. >> let me give you an example. they each had, come over here, five workers and produces one widget. let's see what happens if sue has a right idea. what happens. she can now create three widgets with her five workers and tyler, you're out of. >> business. sue might have taken two people over from tyler's company. >> and the other three ties would find a job somewhere else and what's happening now is a step change. >> a massive change in technology. >> and this is something we've never seen before so what happens is we don't know what happens to the other workers

when you have a step change. let's move on now and take a look at what i just showed you graphically because it does show up in the data. they all moved together. let's look at sort of post-2,000. productivity and gdp are going up and employment stagnant. you can go back further and argue there's a step change going on in technology and the effect it has on workers and income. tyler? >> steve. joining this conversation.

welcome to both of you and welcome to you, steve. >> you've done some work on whether objectively there is a great divide economically in this country. steve just laid out some of the reasons that he sees it. what do you think? is the divide as deep as we seem to think and what caused it? >> definitely as stark as steve presented it, regardless of whether you just look at income before taxes, income after taxes, whether you look at consumption and what people are actually consuming. you know, we've seen income inequality and expand to record historical levels and steve cited some sort of traditional economic and market force type of examples but also very good to point out the institutions, that institutions such as organized labor unions or institutions such as government, where you are raising the minimum wage to keep it up at pace with living standards, right, that we have pulled back on this.

we've made conscious decisions on those of creating income inequality and the latest example where we've made a conscious decision on letting the gap and chas many get rigger. >> peter, not only do we have all of these globalization that steve pointed to and that professor rogers just painted to. basically boils down to the idea that this economy is not generating the kind of growth that would sustain employment growth at the level that we need to employ fully all of those workers. we've got lots of social fabric promises now inconvenient to keep, see detroit, michigan, and, third, a social safety net that has in part been cut back. cutbacks in welfare payments, women and children and head start and things like that. are all of these things coming

together to make things worse? >> two things to keep in-mile-per-hour. number up, even though we've not seen the kind of recovery in the labor market than we've seen in the stock market, labor and capital do not necessarily need to be in conflict. this is not a zero sum game and what we have to remember is the thing that's really driving all of this, as steve pointed out, is technological advantagement and globalization. >> you can do more with less, with fewer. >> no, no, no, can i correct you. you can do an unbelievable a lot more than you could do before. we used to have incremental changes, but you have -- and the other point about the move from manufacturing into services, something like 1 million secretarial jobs are just gone. >> yeah. >> the number of meter readers, they are gone. used to be 65,000 in the country and now it's down in the tens of thousands. >> creative destruction. >> so it's right to say that unless we have some top line growth that's the hope of the future, the continued rise in

profitability will not continue and the stock market recovery will be soft, but the key question is how are you going to generate the kind of investment that you need to see recovered in jobs and wages? >> you led me right to the second question. so how can you have a stock market that keeps going up, up and up if a big hunk of the economy isn't? >> well, in the short run you can have that, but the question is, as you've pointed out, is this sustainable? and what we need to remember is a rising stock market isn't necessarily good for workers, but a falling stock market isn't good for anybody, and historically what's happened, right, is when the cost of capital falls as the stock market rises we see employment pick up as firms start to invest. we've not seen -- investment in the early 2000s -- >> one small thing. these things are supposed to correct over time. it may yet happen. it may yet happen. i don't know that we can do it

without the help of institutions. there's a split between capital and labor for every extra dollar of productive and that's been more favor of capital than it has been over many years. >> is the social fabric of this country at risk because of what we're talking about right here? >> big demonstrations in athens and spain and in france. we so far have not seen that because we haven't had the kind of us a state imposed there. is the social fabric in danger? >> being stretched at a lot of levels, whether at the lockeral level and up to our state and federal level, very much stretched and what's happening is you have families, many people with the children. the believe was my kid, i myself we play by the rules and we work hard and we can advance. >> but we're not and i'm getting

angry and hurt. >> and people are very nervous they will fall out of middle class, right, and so this will translate into political chaos, into cultural chaos. one of the things, through my work with united way, we have not seen in the past was just this increase in the number of people who are seeking clinical support in terms of counseling. >> we'll have to leave it there. mr. rogers, thank you very much and, peter, always great to see you and steve, pretty god to see you. >> your company went out of business. >> i did, i saw that. >> fascinating conversation, guys. appreciate it, and we have a lot more coming up on "power lunch." we'll take a quick break and be right back at you. wi drive a ford fusion. who is healthier, you or your car? i would say my car. probably the car. cause as you get older you start breaking down. i love my car. i want to take care of it. i have a bad wheel - i must say.

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