for answers, let's welcome rick newman, a columnist at yahoo! finance. what happened this week? >> stock market went crazy. is that plain enough? >> i like it. >> well, ben bernanke got everybody a little bit nervous. he basically said that the fed didn't change anything this week. what they said is we could begin to scale back this monetary stimulus they've been doing sometime later this year, which most people think means perhaps around december. that's a big deal because for about four years, this has been in place. and this has been a huge factor that has been pushing stock mice prices up and interest rates down. so what investors are interpreting this as meaning is that we're sort of at the beginning of the end of this easy money policy that has been really terrific for investors who have had the guts to be in the stock market lately. so we saw, you know -- all told, the stock market fell by about 4% over the two days following bernanke's remarks. that's not terrible. the stock market is actually still up about 10% this year. i mean, basically, it was a reminder that stocks

rick newman, good to see you.o, car companies and the government usually, you know, quietly negotiate the recalls, then they announce it, we announce it to the public, but nobody has refused to issue recalls since 1996, why is chrysler doing this? >> chrysler thinks they're right. they have mustered their own safety sa fi safety statistics to rebut what the government has said. they said they identified at least 24 other models that had a worse safety record going by the same parameter than the jeeps in question and they're pointing out none of these cars have been recalled. our cars are actually -- these jeeps are actually safer than the other ones and, in fact, they exceed the government safety standards. so they're saying, look, you guys, the government issued standards, we met the standards and in fact exceeded them. there is no reason for a recall here. >> so all i can do is think about the two points, 7 million jeep owners because i would think what am i supposed to do. >> that's the big question. so both si

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