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stuart: that was sherman calling out michael crabtree. he had broken up a pass intended for crabtree that sealed the game. seahawks-broncos in new jersey. the broncos are now the one point favorite. some ppople are calling it the pot bowl because the teams come from states that legalize recreational marijuana, colorado and washington. elizabeth macdonald is here trying to get out of this. have you got anything to add to the pot bowl? >> should you invest in brands like yum brands? i am seeing funny. stuart: you are a despondent to doritos. liz: i am looking ahead. stuart: can start a new week without something on the obamacare debacle.

the reports the white house will delay yet another key provision. this time the rule that prohibits companies from offering better health care coverage to executives after the rank-and-file. it will not be enforced this year. why? the iressa and force as obama it has yet to issue guidelines for employers. this is serious. liz: this is serious. the irs was told in the summer of 2010 to have these rules ready. now about four years later, the problem is the irs cannot get a grip on how to define the rules. stuart: the irs cannot define the value of a health plan, they can define who is higher paid, and who is discriminated against because you have to pay a fine of $100 per day per person. liz: by the way, they can define

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stuart: yes, it is. >> i want to know what we are going to do about apple. what is your outlook on our apple? >> congratulations to you. you are the best economic analysis and comedy commentor in america. i have been watching it. people who do not watch his show are missing good tv. stuart: they picked out real nice stuff. we will be marketing our fourth anniversary throughout the show. later in our next hour, we bring you your choice of the most interesting company of the year. we will speak to the cofounder of that company. that was a look at the past. time for a look at the future.

amazon. the online real tailored announcing it will ship products that it thinks you will buy before you actually buy them. bringing its goal of same-day delivery a little closer to reality. russ, explain this. how will they do this? >> it sounds way fancier and more futuristic than it really is. they will stock up the new york sales groups. stuart: no. i think you got it wrong. i think that looking at what i used to buy in the past, i think that counting keystrokes of what goes into my shopping cart of what i may bite in the future and they are at date on that.

>> product searches, wish lists on amazon, your shopping cart data, your keystrokes. they will have a delivery drone now to deliver to you. stuart: stop it. >> they are looking at all the metadata. they are not looking at you personally. stuart: i am special. the point is they are not shipping it to my personal address. they are shipping it to a warehouse near me so that if i do actually click by, it is much closer to me. it is very clever. it is part of the future. this is for you. the cloud storage company. drop box. now valued at $10 billion.

a couple 100 employees to my knowledge. >> absolutely. they have made a really big business. they are offering storage space all around. a lot of people use it to essentially just share files with other staffers, families use it for sharing photos. >> expecting to go public this year. stuart: they could do an ipo this year. there are all kinds of companies that have rented space up there. >> from microsoft, dropbox, though, is one of the first and most successful. whether it ends up making them much money, we will see. stuart: i just got some pictures of the grandchildren from my daughter. she sent them to me by dropbox.

russ, you put game stop on deathwatch. now you are saying nintendo may be in trouble. first of all, game stop, are they going out? >> eventually, yes. they are never ever going to hit that again. they will never hit that same value ever again. it is all because everything is going digital. that is just cutting out everything. stuart: what about nintendo?

there may not be a lot of jobs and technology. the few jobs that there are certainly pay well, even if you get fired. >> we are talking a lot of monee. he is getting a payout level of elon musk or bill gates. this gentle man got paid more in total compensation for 2012 then these executives. that is something. stuart: i have no comment on that one whatsoever. president obama sharing his views on marijuana. i smoked pot as a kid and i view it as a bad habit.

i do not think it is more dangerous than alcohol. what do you think about the president's comments on pot? >> you have created a wonderful show. thank you so much for having me. congratulations. to the president's credit, he did acknowledge that. it is a dangerous line. at what point do we say a negotiated amount of cocaine is okay. the president did acknowledge that. he is absolutely right. stuart: let me interrupt you. you are a young person. what do you think? should we legalize marijuana nationally, on a federal basis? >> i differ from my generation. for me, personally, i happen to

diverse from my generation on this one. it is very bad for you. it stays in your organs can't not just at the time of the high, but going forward. it is a very bad substance. it is linked to cancer. it is linked to schizophrenia. my generation, by and large, want it legal. stuart: president obama has come out and said that race may be a factor in his popularity or otherwise among white voters. there is no dow that there are some folks that really did not like him because they do not like the idea of a black president. these comments come on a day where we remember martin luther king jr. >> this is so disturbing to me. this is not a racist country.

this is a country that elected a african-american man for president twice. we have gotten to the point where we have an african american president. at what point do we say we are not a racist country. this is dishonoring martin luther king junior's legacy. >> the president has had to contend with this. it is basically really slow economic growth. stuart: we thank you for being with us. are you in florida?

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stuart: stock markets in america closed, but they traded all around the world. we are up three dollars. google in the process of making a contact lens used with diabetics. the technology could be

changing. we still have russ with us. i do not see this as a game changer for google. i do see it as a new era in wearable technology. >> absolutely. we have seen a lot of companies come out with watches. this is being embedded into your being. we have a little light that will be in the contact lens. stuart: that is how it works? >> yes. it is amazing. stuart: google has come a long way from search. a woman in california beat a ticket last week for wearing google glass while driving. the first person to do so. they are proposing legislation that bans google glass. we are joined by new york state assemblyman felix ortiz. welcome to the program.

your legislation would say you cannot wear them. you cannot put them on behind the wheel whether they are turned on or not. >> that is correct. the use of google glass while driving is to be banned. stuart: have you ever wore google glass yourself? >> i found out that it is this. stuart: suppose you do not have it turned on. it is just like a regular pair of glasses. >> it is still distract this. it has created obstruction while the individual is trying to concentrate. stuart: you went to google. >> yes. stuart: a pair of google glass.

>> i think it is still very interesting. we have to look at it from the perspective of public safety. technology is continuing to advance. i think as you may remember, i also -- stuart: you are the first one to be have a cell phone while driving into and texting while driving. now you want to ban google glass. i understand that you do not want this distraction. the fact is, we all do it. don't we? >> people will do it. i think it is very important.

the california law states that a police officer can give you a ticket violation if it is a video. in this case, the police officer was not aware if it was on or off. we need to ban it completely. people can be safe. stuart: i think local authorities will make a lot of money out of this. >> i think it is more about the public safety. stuart: what about eating a hamburger while i am driving? would you begin eating whileg. >> if someone will be at high risk, i think we need to begin

to think about this very seriously. i am not saying i will ban that at this point. i will make sure that we could come up with a result that will benefit the public safety of our people. stuart: felix ortiz from new york state. we thank you. thank you. the target hack is still making headlines. it turns out the person who wrote the code that's though all the information may be a late 17 years old. we will get the full story for you. first, look at some of the cool places we have taken you on varney and company over the last four years. >> you are about 30,000 feet. we got 50% higher.

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♪ stuart: somebody comes to the door, you do not know who it is -- that guy will run a mile. [laughter] stuart: i cleaned the chainsaw on the kitchen table when the boyfriend comes around. it is pretty good. let me get out of this. i just started to use my iphone. i have never used one before. it is sheer murder. i had to deal with an iphone and obamacare at that same time. charles: why did you gravitate towards arthur? stuart: isn't he and arthur that

was suggested by you, the viewers. were you affected by the target data breach? elizabeth macdonald, you have details. >> this russian 17-year-old offered a malware that affected tens of millions of shoppers. another expert, the one who broke the news about the holiday hack is saying, no, it is not the russian 17-year-old teen. it is ukraine working with another group. the big story is they turned targets own servers. they turned it against target.

they downloaded to a computer in russia. this story, as he reported a month and a half ago, we said this was coming out of russia. stuart: all right, elizabeth, thank you very much. this is what we have coming up at 10:00 o'clock. obamacare. which parts of the law being enforced. a new app. it will help you win. really? we have the apps creator at 10:40 a.m. coming up. ♪ wered by coal? natural gas? nuclear? or renewables like solar... and wind? let's find out. this is where america's electricity comes fm. a diversity of energy sources helps ensure the electricity

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and ows more businesses... we're open to it. start a tax-free business at startup-ny.com. stuart: it has been a great run, and we are not done. four years ago today we started "varney & company," and you will see the highlights in the hour that starts now. plus this. betsy mccoy looks around the tone that is the obamacare rule and yet another delay. only she can follow what is going on, and yes, she is here. we have a yoga instructor mad as hell over lululemon. how dare they say yoga pants may not be for everyone. and surely that thing is going to die. the left piles on chris christie. and we have the author of a luxury app, he says it makes winning easier.

a very tough sell on this program. let me tell you. ♪ >> while cnbc is on tape, where open for business. stuart: oh, yeah. new, live this hour. we are bringing you some of the best moments from the past year throughout the show including your choice for most interesting company of the year. we will unveil your pick. the founder of the company as well. we start with what else, obamacare, of course. the white house wants to delay the rule that would prohibit companies from offering better health coverage to their executives than their rank-and-file. author of a new book called "beating obamacare in 2014". i am in the acknowledgment of that book. >> as well as you should be for

informing the public of this monstrosity. stuart: should 2716 of obamacare says you as a company may not offer more valuable health care plan to top executives then you do to the rank and file. that rule will not be enforced in 2014. i say this because the irs cannot define what is a high-value plan, high paid executive. >> i disagree. it is because they want to drive the young entry-level employees into the obamacare exchanges. the very same reason they delayed the employer mandates. they want the young working adults to be in the exchanges, they cannot give them an attractive option. so the law firm only covers employers would be required under this provision to also cover paralegals, receptionist, back office people.

if they are not required to do that, those people will go to the exchanges, just what the obama administration wants. stuart: apparently we got the story entirely wrong. i am finding it increasingly difficult to find which section of the law is in place right now and effective right now. >> that is one of the reasons i wrote "beating obamacare 2014". what is being rolled out right now, there is no semblance to of this law enacted in 2010. in our country the rule of law is supposed to be king, but mr. obama didn't get that memo, charles. stuart: we have the taxes to pay for it. there is no hoping that off for a year. >> and we will be clobbered with much more. everybody is talking about the supposedly that's spiral facing

insurers is not enough young, healthy people will offset the cost of caring for the ill. it is not the insurers who will get clobbered because this law also provides for a bailout. have to compensate insurers who lose money the first three years of the law because they have an adversely selected pool of enrollees. stuart: if the government is not allowed to bail out insurance companies. >> then they will go out of business? no, no. what this law intends to do is drive the insurers out of business were not participating in the exchanges. if you said to ford we will give a government subsidy to everybody who buys a ford car and you can price it as low as you want so you don't have to worry about losing money, what would happen to chrysler? chrysler would go out of business because they would have to compete on an uneven playing field.

charles: any insurer trapped in this program probably would get hurt. >> oh, no, they can raise the premiums as high as yo they want the mandate forces you to pay it. stuart: will you pay at or will you pay the fine a instead? >> the fine will also go up. this is forcing us into a single-payer system. stuart: are we in a death spiral? >> the taxpayers are. that is right. very few uninsured people are signing up, because of obamacare they are older, sicker, cannot afford to go without the care. >> if they underperform or 8% or more, the taxpayers make 80%. >> they are being incentivized to inaccurately price their product to make this law look

workable when it is not workable. i have read it, i know it is a booby trapped the american people. stuart: do appreciate it. next item, an update on a story we brought you friday. google in the process of developing a contact lens with a tiny microchip that can be used to monitor blood sugar levels in diabetics. it turns out microsoft was involved in this as well. that makes the interested because i own microsoft stock. what is microsoft point of view? charles: they had it for three years, and austin 2011 they had big dreams and kind of let it go. guess where he works now. google. he is not just in charge of this, he is in charge of google glass. this guy's a visionary, he is huge and microsoft let him slip through their fingers because they backed him initially but it is an older company.

stuart: on the fourth anniversary, i ownoft stocks and they're pointing out that of urgency between microsoft and google, they are so smart and microsoft is not. thanks, charles. listen to this one, no spend from amazon. beginning to ship products they think you will buy before you actually buy it. maybe that brings the goal of same-day delivery. >> this isn't as intuitive as one thinks. they're patenting anticipatory packaging. this basically looks at a demographic geographically of what those folks tend to order more and they ship those products to fulfillment centers rather than waiting for that step. it is sitting there waiting based on this particular area of

orders a lot of these products. charles: it is not out of the realm of possibility they will ship it to you and if you don't want it, ship it back. stuart: so they will lose money on that. charles: it depends on how well they know you. stuart: they read the kind of stuff i like to buy. then all the stuff that are in my shopping cart, they know what my wish list is because that is posted on my amazon account and say that guy, he will order this, this, and this. we will ship it to a warehouse near him, not to his home? >> a lot of folks probably order for their espresso drinks. you have it ready to ship. stuart: you are here to talk about obamacare. what do you know about amazon? stuart: we have been talking

about wearable technology. everything from wristbands to smart shirts and apps for google glass. it will be a major theme in tech this year as well. a company getting in on the game, one of them, joining us now, the ceo. welcome to the program. you have this company. what do you have to do with wearable computer power? >> it will have a huge impact on the weight loss industry. we have weight control centers. you can put this technology into a control center after he is given private counseling customers can go out and do a lot of things on their own but they won't spend as much time go back to physical locations. we will partner with a technology company.

stuart: i would wear some kind of computing power that reports on my weight? >> yes, it will tie into our applications as well. we sell a food that causes people to lose weight, so we need them to exercise, to go out and use those applications. stuart:'s yo your partnering wia technology company. i wear the technology i checked me out. i might actually losing weight, actually exercising? that is the tie in. you are late to the game, i can buy all kinds of apps, free apps on my smartphone right here that will check out what was my weight, to exercise? >> people are going to use the free apps for this no question if we do the right thing and partner with the right companies in this particular area we

integrated that in with our programs looking for the significant amount of weight. we had only one who grew revenue last year, so we see tremendous opportunity, you're either going to play the game and participate in the technology or it will pass you by. stuart: do you pay the technology company or doesn't technology company pay you? >> we will sell the technology company products as a distributor of their products into our customer base. stuart: you will sell it to the technology company? >> we will sell their product to our customers. your customer of medifast and could be buying it over the internet or at one of our centers, we have 11,700 health coaches. you would recommend to your personal coaching where to use

this technology to measure everything. stuart: so they pay you? >> they are not paying us. we are paying them. stuart: michael, thank you for joining us. medifast. we thank you very much for being with us. you know the market must be closed if i am doing a news alert on the queen of england. apparently she is heading some of her duties over to prince charles. deficit to two years, a shared crown? you're not a fan of the monarchy, are you? charles: i will tell you this, i guarantee you amazon is shipping a lot of queen elizabeth stuff to the distribution center near your house. commemorative this.

stuart: it is fine over there, does not find over here. point number two, it is not a shared monarchy. the queen's into her late 80s and having her oldest son, prince charles, taking over the opening of a train station y post office. that is not a shared crown. charles: it is not about america, it is about europeans pushing back. in barcelona they don't want to recognize juan carlos in belgium we have seen the transition. the bottom line is to settle this to the next generation you have to make it look like a shared market. stuart: thank you very much, indeed. stay out of this.

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stuart: eric holder's department of justice to collect a record amount of money in fines this year from big corporations. rich edson has details. it was the banks, they took over 100 billion of the banks last year, whether going after this year? >> that is still something agencies around the world are looking into. a price-fixing scheme $740 million alone, taking more than a billion dollars this

year, more than a billion dollars last year in 2009 more than a billion dollars. that is much as european. the eu alone $2.5 billion in antitrust fines. stuart: you sound like you're coming down with something there. you are trooper for turning out today. thank you very much, indeed. the snow is coming for new york tomorrow and wednesday, you know that. >> yes. stuart: stay in washington, okay. >> no problem. stuart: you remember lululemon chief crying after he said some women were too fat for his company's pants. our next guest, a former ambassador to the lululemon brand joins us in new york. welcome to the program. a >> thank you for having me. >> you had some choice words,

what were they? >> i asked him to kiss my fat yoga ass. i was an investor twice for lululemon. i opened the store. stuart: he said essentially yoga is not for everyone. some people do not have the body for it. for the pants anyway. >> they set themselves as representing what yoga is and they're getting it wrong. yoga is about acceptance for everybody. the fact he tried to single everybody out does not sit well with anybody, especially me. >> doesn't to try to position lululemon as a fashion company primarily, a yoga company? >> they tried to market the company as well. they put elements on their bags, they had a bag recently that said about sexual responsibility

and had hypodermic needles and oreo cookies and prisoners on the bag. they don't understand what yoga really is. charles: what about the issue they just started to make the pants wrong. somehow whatever the formula was the mood away from the formula, instead of admitting that, they blame women who were not getting women. >> i completely agree. they started out putting out products that were subpar from what they were generally putting out. the stock is down 30%. >> may have tried to backpedal by saying chip wilson is out, but he is not. charles: to give many bit of credit?

abercrombie renewed his contract, at least chip will decide. you don't like this guy. >> i still think it is the tale wagging the dog. he will still be pointless strings. stuart: suppose the company would turn around and say yes, yoga is for everyone and ladies who have large thighs look good in lululemon pants, would that make you happy? >> just accept and what it is they do and not trying to use yoga and say that is what yoga is what makes me happy. i would love a real apology from chip. i want him to call me up. stuart: maybe he will after this. >> i would like that. stuart: my take on the party for the elites is next. but first, what with the fourth

anniversary special be without some highlights from charles payne himself? look at this. charles: lets get that straight, i'm already in it, up hundreds of a percent, making tons of money, i happen to like chicken and color green. i like big mac. that is what i like, leave me alone, i'm not an idiot, i am not stupid. stuart: listen to this, please. temper patek was a horrible thing that we sent back. charles: i am a little nervous now. charles: people don't take risk under this administration. singers are afraid to sing. [ me announcer ] this is the story

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stuart: 14,177, up almost 50 points, this is a new high for the dow. higher than the old closing high. there you go. it just happened, ladies and gentlemen.

on this show saying stocks are undervalued, 15,002 to be precise. it happened right here, 20 seconds into the trading session this monday morning. stuart: market closed today for mlk day. we're still working, and we watched history unfold. the dow crossed three major milestones. make sure you are here when we cross 17k. governor jerry brown wants to raid the cap and trade fund to pay for the bullet train. sure, this project is dead, isn't it? a firm answer coming up for you. here is a word you will be hearing a lot this week, davos. here's my take. if i thought a meeting of the

great financial minds would yield great debate, i would be there. without intellectual giants of the planet would enlighten me, i would be there. but frankly i don't think the elites gathering in switzerland will do any such thing. you won't hear much passion. they are hardly representative. it is established elites who are there in force, that little interest in rocking intellectual boat. the social model of capitalism. americans will talk about addressing income inequality, and the chinese, laugh of them all. i would be willing to bet good money very few of the talking heads predicted a huge stock market rally. today predicts the financial rate was imposed on them by the left or the debacle of obamacare? i don't remember any such predictions last year, so what is the point of davos?

it is a party for the elites in an elite setting. the alps, rubbing shoulders with like-minded people. it is confirming to oneself you are a success just because you are at davos. it is an ego stroke for the elites. there is a side you will not see, private conversations where they have deals flushed out. i would like to be in on that because that would be useful information. instead a bucket load of platitudes, the elites congratulating each other on another year of being at davos. i don't know about you, but i will be laughing at them. [ woman ] when you own your own business,

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he is buddy buddy with all of the oil companies. get some stuff out of your ears. stuart: how about that. one of the more contentious if not most talked about guests in the past. opposing the keystone. thought that was a pretty good interview. more trouble for chris christie. don zimmer accusing them of holding funds unless she agreed to it. >> chris christie's office are speaking out against them, it is politically motivated. what an opportune time and everybody is piling on chris christie, why not throw this into it? stuart: why now? all the time goes by.

charles: if you guys get a chance to read, i am no psychiatrist or psychologist, but either this person thought of all this stuff last night or they need help. i am no handwriting expert, but golly. the conversation she had where she was apparently strong-armed. whether she stepped forward already? we will produce this diary in this particular conversation. it feels like it is way too late. stuart: i watched the media consistently talk about piling on. this traffic problem at the george washington bridge, very

wrong. charles: nowhere as serious as the economy tanking, noohere as serious as some of these other things. stuart: now we have this, governor jerry brown has a new plan for the high-speed bullet train project that was supposedly eventually connect los angeles and san francisco. he wants to raise the state's $250 million cap and trade fund. he argues it would eventually reduce greenhouse gas emissions so it is okay to use cap and trade money. what is the governor stay so vehemently with a project that is way over budget, not even started yet and increasing unpopular in california.

>> 70% of californians want the high-speed rail project to go back to the ballot because it looks nothing like 2007. the governor has some romantic sense this will be a symbolic connection between northern and southern california. we forget the fact we have all kinds of interstate travel and airline to go back and forth. this may be more about his legacy then trying to live up to the infrastructure legacy that his father had in the 50s and 60s. stuar you think this thing will actually be built? >> there are so many obstacles in the way right now. you have a federal judge to put the brakes on the bond money the state did. another judge the step forward and said you haven't done the full statewide environmental impact study.

you have house representatives out there who basically said the state isn't going to get any federal funding until they can pony up the billion dollars promised. the new $1.1 trillion spending, not a single dime for high-speed rail in the entire thing. stuart: but you keep electing left of center democrats that believe in big government, high taxes, more spending. i think governor brown is up for reelection some point in the near future. >> that will be coming. he did a statewide swing that looks like a campaign p.r. tour. stuart: is not necessarily issuing, but why is this kind of politics so popular in california to generations?

>> frankly from the republican party standpoint, i've said this a number of times with you, stuart. we have not reached out to people to get the message out that there is a smarter, economic way to do that in california. both houses, both recently and state senate and a democratic senator who continues to push projects like this. california now has become the worst state in the country to do business in. stuart: thank you for coming by. we are always interested in the golden state of california. after the break, a guy write an app he says it makes it easier to win the lottery. intriguing, wouldn't you say? he is on the show coming up. watch out.

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if i get this app, what do you do for me? >> you scan your ticket into the app and as soon as the drawing results come in real-time you will get a real-time push notification that will slide you over to the homepage of the app. you go to the homepage where it will list all of your numbers, you can hit a spin button and the wheel will spin and your winning numbers will come out, it will highlight against the numbers you played and when the lottery is completed you touch another icon take you to another window with the same information and tell you what your payout was. stuart: it makes it easier to play the lottery. >> it is easier to win. there are three main reasons why people don't claim the lottery winnings.

every year over a billion dollars goes unclaimed. stuart: i got all of that, but you are not going to give me numbers to play. >> we do. stuart: but you will not claim those numbers are more likely to win the numbers i chose for myself. >> they are. an algorithm was written to choose a selected random number iand those numbers have been tracked and what they are are the numbers for whatever u play, the numbers that most frequently show up in a collaboration of numbers overdue to show up. stuurt: you are playing the odds of the winning numbers. >> this is not something that will guarantee you that you will win. stuart: you think it is more likely you will win because you're selecting numbers that have not been selected in the past the other than being selected now are higher. >> numbers i the past you that

have come up most frequently and numbers overdue to come up. >> that doesn't matter. statistically when you roll the dice every time you roll the dice it has the same chance of being a one, two, three, four, five, six. it doesn't matter how many times you roll a six. >> i understand what you're saying, what i am saying is these numbers for each one of these lotteries the winning numbers have been tracked over the past year. the numbers at most frequently show up in the numbers that are overdue, these are the numbers. stuart: how do you make your money? >> it is a subscription-based app. $1.99 per month. lottery live. stuart: you can do it all over

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stuart: syrian peace talks begin as a nuclear deal begins to fall into place with iran. all the while the damning ben guss report highlighting the obama administration's failures and the region. we'll be joined by former pentagon official kt mcfarland tonight at 7:00 eastern. please be with us. stuart: it is that time, the reveal. you voted our next guest company's most interesting company we had in 2013. the winner is moe's bows. see, that is why you one.

you are all personality, people enjoy you. i'm looking down the list here, you beat american girl, the doll company. 3d printing company. that is pretty good. how do you feel? obviously feel pretty good. has your business expanded in the past year? >> yes, my business has expanded. it expanded by me making more ties and having more employees. stuart: oh, really. how many employees have you got now? >> i have three employees. one works full time and the other to work half-time. part-time. stuart: it is still a family business, right?

>> yes. stuart: you don't do any advertising other than appearing with people like me, is that correct? >> yes. let me just say you help me by having me on your show and getting me publicity. because you are just so amazing, stuart. but i have one question for you, when are you going to start wearing my product? stuart: you put it on the defensive, that is a very good. you did send me a couple of bow bowties, we received them and i did try them on, but they are not for me. you have to admit, not everybody is a bowtie kind of guy. you have to admit. >> since i am expanding into my other projects, it includes skinny neckties, and that we can wear neckties. stuart: you are expanding?

>> yes, i'm expanding into azers and different, cool things. stuart: you've got a great fashion sense. i like the color combo. did you say skinny ties? let me explain something. that was fashionable when i was a young man 50 years ago. so you are now going to make retro ties? >> yes. i want to bring back that feeling. i want to bring back the cool and classic look. stuart: you send me one, i will check it out, and if i like it, i will wear it. is that okay? >> okay. stuart: congratulations, you're the most interesting company of the year according to our viewers, and i think you deserve that title. >> thank you. stuart: thank you very much.

your take is next. but first, she might not be with us today, but she is still an important part of the show. a look at nicole petallides and her memorable moments from our past year. nicole: i live for dodgeball. i will take anybody on. we will be good. nicole: i feel like i'm at the crops table. i am taking the dice and thrown them. i actually can walk and talk. stuart: there is a direct look amongst quality right there. congratulations, nicole. nicole: volley had her film, businesses and life, right? [ intercom ] drivers, to your marks.

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i think it is a party for the elites. here is what you had to say. they can pat themselves on the back like the elite hollywood morons do and tell each other how great they are. one of our viewers tweeted this. it is the oscar ford do-gooder nerds looking for a purpose. they are not all nerds, by the way. why don't you go? charles: you know what mama i would go, but i would not go to the meetings. >> they are making each other feel important. raising their champagne glasses. they really should be answering questions like is china going to implode. i do not know that anybody is there answering the questions.

stuart: dagen, it is yours. dagen: fox business will have extensive coverage of this. it was good to see you. clearing the way for a partial lifting of sanctions. more backlash for governor chris christie. funds for the 2012 super storm were withheld. the question is, why are we hearing about this now? the flu now widespread in 40 states. it will be the denver broncos and the seattle seahawks battling out in a frigid new jersey. welcome to the northeast.