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gerri: let's get to the top story. hedge funds coming for your many. with the advertising blitz full-page ads cold calling. and these guys have reason to do this now. judging by recent performance they have done a terrib job to manage the billions of dollars they alrey have. here now personal finance expert, a welcome. >> with all of the solicitations. >> the s reverses theeeve year-old re to bef the solicitation. also private equity funds and consumers are calling foul. are they at risk? >> has potential problems the market place will lk fferent in a coule months when the anges take

effect. companies with little no operational history soliciting funds they will be on your tv will see the huge billboard on th tv. maybe even on an facebook. gerri: they're already on twitter. there is another one that says no information like the inside information. here is the ttom line. with the inx funds charging 2% and another 20% off the top. see even if you have access to the best hedge fund what does that mean?

>> th have to appeal to the masses even only certain income levels over the past couple years, a big dea they will ill go after these guys "fast & furious" and give the mutual-fund industry are rise also the try to get the wealthy people to invest their up against different restriction so it is interesting to see how that plays out. gerri: people are smaer than this. our viewers are too smart to get caught up in this. >> did you make over a certain amount may you are more sophisticated but investment schemes go across all socio-economic. gerri: b so but our viewers

>> your ears are very savvy. gerri: but there is a flip side. private equity, that is the stock market. also the high-frequency firm's string of the market. it is not a safe place to invest wth indivual stocks maybe how do you do that? you do not do the ipo because you cannot get a good price. bb this? >> sun will be legitimate some will be fraudulentome will hit the unsuspecting investors to have their way. gei: th is the bad news and some people will get caught up in that but that is the onus on the input individual investor because

they will not get any help as usual. >> the ual things you should be doing anay. and the remainder to be taking extra precaution. >> 60 days away? i know you will be watching. >> you come back to tell us what you willee. >> i will. i will do that. gerri: federal rerve officials are not on the same page at because investors are obsessed with they will slow the stimulus and ben bernanke try to clear the confusion and ter barnes is in cambridge massachusetts to jointly with the latest. >> investors were waiting to get any word from ben bernanke about tapering t antative easing bond

purchases of $85 billion per month to keep long-term interest rates down and of fed chairman sella's like he was interested in that later they and souders. >> an appoinent at 7.6 % if anythin overstates the help of the labor market given participation rates and ny other indicators of the underemployed and meum long term unemployment. we're not thereith maximum employment mandate. with price stability stabily, inflation is 1% that is below the 2% objective. so both sides said the mandate employment and inflatn say that we need to be more accommodating. >> but the fed chairman spoke a couple of hours after the minutes were released of the meeting back in june and it is not clear from those minutes that the chairman has the full

support of the other fed members. here is one key line for the minutes'' several members had judged that th reduction of acid purses -- purchases would soon be %-cumulative decline of an ployee batson september in 2012 in the ongoing increases of private payroll which had increased their confidence in the outlook for sustained improvement in labor rket conditions. but then it also shows half of theomc participate in its belt quantitative easing should into lat this year. back to you. gerri:ow the latest edition yesterday we put the irs of the walsh team for leaking thousands of social

security numbers of wind. but today is good news from illinois of all places. th newest member is democrat governor using his line item veto power to suspend a state lawmakers' pay because of the inaction on the $100 billion pension cris. he sayshere will be no paychecks for legislators until they get the job done. imagine that. know if wean only do that washington bbv would see a budget. more to come including half of the james galdolni estate gs to the irs we wi tell you the same step to take to not fall into that trap. this time fighting crespo negative cholesterol if we will get one doctor's opinion after the break.

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we have a cardiologists. dr. campbell, this is fascinating. this means i can eat anything i want but pharmaceutical companies are racing to develop this drug which sells like it will be really expensive. how does it work? >> it is a game changer. cholesterol is one of the most important risk factors for heart disease for every 1 percent to lower cholesterol numbe you will reword death by 1% this is an injectable once or twice per month and it pushes the numbers down to the lower ranges in the havever seen before. gei: let'sive some background. a couple of people out there with the mutated gene they have cholesterol levels 14 or 15. unheard of lels if we could then make that that

would help so many people. the possibilities are amazing. >> absolutely. if we could modify the risk factor such as high cholesterol we could impact disease with the rising cost health care if we could prevent heart attacks in the cost associated with it it could be a game changer. however the otheher side is that they make you very -- they're veryxpensive because theyre incene negative expensive to make. gerri: is unlikely they will not pick up the tab? >> lb difficult toet insurance expensive to m make. companies to cover this i spent a good amount of time arguing for them to pay for my patients. if it is a game changer in the long run theyay. gerri: they're already

testing the drug to fight amazing results for golfer way could we s this introduced? >> the fda approval process is long.@ at least 12318 months to complete the clinical trials then present the data and lethem decide if this is good to helphe patients. gerri: what companie are likely to be first out of the gate? >> those that are far it a star amgen, a fee and pfizer. one of these already has plans -- plants offshore to start making the drug taking there will have a big return gerri: thank you for bringing this. you will answer the question next how you do that?

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$30 million is heading straaght to of calcium with a death tax. but does not include t state taxes. how a kid you avoid this? to a degree now real-estate e. turner -- attorney. 30 million goes to uncle sam what did he do wrong? >> it is easy for uso look at the media in the payroll in the sky to say he did subbing wanted in a perfect world that you stayed buried forever in you give your wife everything. gerri: the wife should always get everything. >>ut she doesn't pay taxes gerri: the wife can take it all with no tax is? >> exactly. number two if you get everything to charity, and the taxes. period. number three, he could give out gets yearly, 14,200.

gerri: but what about a ust? >> there was the real vocable trust for operty when you put that into a trust not only doesn't skip the taxes but it freezes the day it goes into the trust. in his primee bought a home. now 2013 it is worth 60 percent more. it doesn't matter if it freezes 1980's all depreciation is noaxable and up at 10 million is also not taxable. if you put into a trust he is not payg xes. gerri: he was only 51 i am sure he was not thinking about this but the tax bill is due in nine months. >> not exactlyut tey get

an automatic extension so it is 15 mont but then they have to put down a reasonable estimate. that could be a problem because you normally paid tas at of your assets but now they paidefore they get e money. but th good news is the irs will work with you they wl set up a payment plan and charge interest so that lps you out. gerri: you can do that every ye. talk about thh death ax is generally and what levels you have to pay and how does that work? >> in 2010 when steinbrenner didy paid no tax on the estate. but right now you pay

40 percent minus the $5 million exemption $40 million to the irs in based new york york, manhattan, he has to pay 60 percent state tax plus 40% death tax negative 5 million exemption federal and 1 million exemption state. gerri: you mentioned the wife there is a complicated situation his wife is not the mother of his son. what does that mean? >> when he marrder in 2008 he did not give her everything he wrote this in 2012. he gave the wife 20%. every wife in new york has a right to get one-third no

matter what. she can elect not to take a 20% and take a 30% he would have been better off if he gave her the 30 percent and then helped her with the taxes. he definitely used an attorney i don't know how good the attorney was but. gerri: also at 51 he probably wasn't thinking something like this would happen in so early. >> and nobody is thinking about mortality at age 51 and you cannot plan especially with the volatile relationship with your family cannot plan in thee are vocable trust you cannot get it back. it is there for ever. that is what it means these words actually mean something. we try to break thatut that is a different sto.

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>> this is about wiretaps, not just about the government collecting this sort of message data of who you are calling in all of that, but they can do it without warrants or anything like that. this is about people they are suspecting of being criminals and terrorists or something like that who they have probable cause on, but if at&t is going tell wiretap your telephone and listen in on your phone calls that costs them money. there is no good answer. of course it would be wrong test at&t with the bill, so the only other alternative is to stick you with the bill. gerri: it is always me, jim. it is always me. let's those -- shows some numbers of how much this costs. it in federal cases it's just under 3 million. it's a pretty significant chunk of change. kino, we talked a lot about what you describe as met today. this is google, yahoo, collecting all this information which free.

they do not charge the federal government to turn that over. is there any instance in which cricket, at&t, verizon are not charging theovernment for this information? >> well, to the degree that it cost the company money, the explanation is that they are covering tir costs in providing it, but also we know that the different companies are charging different amounts. and so it is not like their is a market out there where prices are being set by market forces. the company says, will try to do this. is someone making a profit? here is why i am upset. i love profit. i don't mind profit, but if a telephone company is profiting f of wiretaps of its own customers, then you are creating a lobbying force for me wiretapping because that is the way it works in washington. gerri: from making my head hurt. >> once someone gets ridge of the government and the government grows more the wake. gerri: here is what makes me mad. shouldn't this be disclosed?

>> absolutely. gerri: you don't disclose it -- dilose it when you are going after dru dealers, but afterwards our like to know how much money you are spending of my money. >> a lot of the spending when it comes to intelligence operations is never disclosed bause we don't want them going out and saying, well, this is how much we are paying fo the secret listening device and that the caves of northern pakistan. that protection that they get for being intelligence agencies were conducting secret operations is eended to the point where all of a sudden because we do not haveood transparency, theres not really a democratic accountability. we did have congress go ahead and get this information, but they did not even know it was there for years. we don't have the abili of decracy to work with these intelligence agencies keeping this inforormation secr. gerri:pparently we know nothing. that is all the information i have bn able to surmise as we find out everything that is

being kept from us and others by the federal government. it is astonishing. thank you for coming on. appreciate it. >> thank you. gerri: it is time for the stories that you are clicking on on foxbusiness.com. and up and down day on wall street. the stock market turns higher after minutes from the fed policy meeting shows they were not ready to slow down stimulus. investors change their mind. the price of oil rising nearly overnment reported another steep decline in our nation's supply. oil has risen $12 per barrel or 13% in the past two weeks. the initi reason -- reason for the job was the uest in egypt. a federal judge says the evidence was overwhelming that apple conspired with publishers to raise electronic book prices back in 2010. the judge says that apple knew that no publisher could risk acting alone. apple stepped in to help. the company continues to deny any wrongdoing and says it wi

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supermart. farmers' markets arerowing in popularity across the u., but are there items in the produce better than wha y can find at the supermarket? with more on thi editor of supermarke to right here on set. grt to see you. so, listen. i have the farmer's market in my neighborhood, and everyone thinks it is the coolest thing to go to, but you look around the corner and there are boxes with mexico stamp on them. >> is a great place to go to meet your neighbors. just as you point out, this whole issue of local is really getting stretched. it used be between 50 miles, then itas 250 miles, now the state to another country. bottom line is you have to be smart and let the hand that table. if this is the are organic in one of those handwritten signs of a cardboard box and ask to see if the -- there is a certication. by law they have to have the

certificate. gerri: how many people using farmers' markets? have a sense it is the most popular thing in the world. >> it has grown 10 percent according to usda with the past year and is now over 7,800 exactly. that's huge. especially in seattle where farmers markets are now going in to the parking lots of supermarkets where they are ining forces. the supermarket is gettiig new customers as a result because you see what the price is here, you see it. you go inside demand that mht be local or from mexico, but there is the cost difference. gerri: the stock a little bit about how to buy local. i mean, if you really want to get the local farmers produce, how'd you do so? >> you can go there, but talk to the farmer. a lot f them are just people going to the perris markets in the morning in buying it.

a great way to get local produce is joini the csa. you get a box every week. it looks great and fresh and you don't consume half of it because you do not know what it is or what to do with it. you really want to be smart, go into the stork. every supermarket as both organic and conventional, some local, but keep in mind tt if it is in season it is probably going to be local. this ttme year you will get ea blueberries and strawberries and beaches and all at, but in january you are not ing to get those products local. gerri: let's talk about supermarkets. continue. going to buy local, really going to try to up our quantity of materials from local farmers. i mea should you just go to the supermarket? >> absolutely. that is what i do, to be hest with you. i have one across -- around the corner from me inanta monica.

i prefer going to the supermarket in knowing what i am getting with all the hype. also, farmers markets are not what they used to be. if they're sling jams d jellies. gerri: you know, the idea, the spinoffs of being it is from a small farmer and it came right from -- 10 acres, not so. some of tse are big farms. let's face it. it is commercially pduced. >> and there are exceptions. one of the best and oldest in theountry, there you will meet farmers and talk to them and learn from them. what you should always do is taste. and if there is someone who want, don't buy from them. taste first, talk to the farme see wherit is grown. our relationship going. gerri: organic farmer's markets. howan i be sure? >> certification. evader not have that whiteiece

of paper up there that certifies that they are organic they're not. gerri: it is great to see you. >> i'm here. to. [laughter] gerri: so good to e you. thank you. well, still to come, my "2 cents more," and where have all the cash rewar don? credit card companies finding different ways to reward customers. details coming up. ♪

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♪ gerri: well, if you -- your barely asking yourself where they a go. card issuers of not offering as much as they used to. joining me now, senior financial analyst. >> interestingly enough, introductory bonuses, those that tend to get everyone's eye and get them to sign up for the card, although there are more of them than what we saw a year ago, they are not as generous. a big change. in terms of the amount of cash back you get on every day spending, that is an area where we did not see a lot of movement introductory bonuses it has downshifted from whate saw a year ago. gerri: suld we be enticed or stay away in your view? >> i think they are attractive provided that you meet that cardinal rule.

it is a good way to putome ca into your pocke pretty easy, especially if you are expecting a flurry of expenses. let's say in the next two months you not only plan a vacation but ticket. you incur aot of expses for airpne tickets, hotels, meals, parking the car at the airport. that's a pretty wicked easy way deadbeat debt spending threshold gerri: are iuers making it harder to get these bonuses? >> certainly not getting any easier. one of two different flavors. core acute-care coverage cops -- or, the same level of spending you have a less attractive bond deal of -- bus. so clearly dnshifted from what we saw a year ago. on the plus side we did see more cars offering introductory

bonuses. instances where cars the did not havene last year now do. some more of them, but i would not say that it is it any easier to get. gerri: what you look for? keeping in mind, that our viewers are not necesrily fans ofredit cards, but my view is, take what you can get from these companies because they're giving you fees everywhere else. >> if you pay your balance in full every month, this reward program is an incentive for you to use the card as a way to g cash back, they will spend anyway. but a card, you have to pay the balance and fall and the other thing, if not a big spender, many retired in your expenses are lower and you live in a rural area were not a lot of people accept credit cds, in that case i would stay away from cars that have an nual fee because you will not spend enough turn it back. gerri: that's a good idea. i like that. the big money question. q. has the best rewards program? >> not a one-size-fits-all answers, b i was a couple of things.

1% cash back is relief continuing to be the baseline of what you will learn under cash back. thgh we did see some that offered more than 1% ch back on all of your spending from the very first dollar of spending. i would look toward those areas. the other thing is about half of the cards that we surveyed have category bonuses. 2% back on groceries, 3 percent and gasoline. you can tailor -- tailored to your spending patterns so that you can squeeze the most value out of it as possible. gerri: i like squeezinout you. that is a goodolution. thank you for coming in. appreciate your time. >> thank you. gerri: now we will get back to something that we started earlier, talking about a new law that makes it much harr to foreclose on people who are linquent on their mortgages or who have abandoned their mortgages altogether. let's go back to the ceo of team investment. do we have you now? >> cell phone, video, we are

problem solvers. gerri: i love it. you guys are good. here is the average in this story, which really caught my eye this morning. it appears in the wall street journal. the government changes the rules, tries to penalize those banks that were not doing foreclosures and a good way and taking their own good time about it, and now t market as mpletely stopped. if you want to buy a house in vegas it is darn hard to do because there are no choices. what do you say to that? >> that is exactly right. this bill is ridiculous. in october of 2011 when it was implemented, the foreclosures went from 4,000 per month to -- yak, and in march of this year as the real intercommunity thought that that was going to have a flood of foclosures hit t market and then they didot do it. last month they came up with something else to amend that to say, okay, we will release these foreclosures. there was a new legislation put

in place basically to say, no, we are not. two steps forwaward, one step back. las vegas is a mess for more than just that. ere are not a lot of jobs. if you are not working in the entertainmentndustry are the military there is no reason that this housing bill is happening. now we have over 13,000 alum sitting in some type of foclosure, and there are only 2,000 pounds on the market. gerri: an interesting story that i read this morning about one individual in particular. they had been foreclosed on, right -- oh, there you are. just popped a picture. in foreclosure for four years. not ming up mortgage payment for a long time. in the meantime he has been saving for is next house, so he has all this money accumulated, no penalties. that is no way to run a marke >> that is criminal. the fact that he is living for free basically on taxpayer dollars because we bailed out the banks and he is going out and going to go by and other

home, probably for cash because he gets paid a substantial amount of money is ridiculous. talk about working the system. that is cpletely worki the system, and there are over 60 percent of homes in the foreclosure process that are in pre foreclosure. that is a lot of homes sitting in that market. we talk about bubbles all the time. there could be a bubble of loss biggest. gerri: i keep hearing that because prices have turned around. after fallin 60% through the meltdown, now ty turn around and have gone back up. are you recommending people buy right now? aru saying stay away because of these weird market dynamics? >> absolutely weird market dynamics. i have not had any of my investorss by at all because there are so many factors that you just don't know how it will turn out. those are variables that i am just not willing to risk people's mon on. gerri: thank you for coming on and describing the story. it is unbelievable. appreciate your time, and thank

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