worried including our next
guest.
joining us now is brad
mcmilan, commonwealth
financial chief investment
officer, and lance roberts, sta
wealth management ceo.
brad, really the first a lot of
us heard about this as a major
concern was last week when
richard fisher, the dallas fed
president talked about it.
he said margin debt is at quote,
eye-popping levels.
do you agree?
>> i do agree and it is not only
the absolute levels that are a
concern it is the levels as
percentage of both the economy
and of total market cap.
even more so, how much it is
increased and how quickly.
and only time we've seen
anything like this before is in
2000 and 2007.
david: well, let's talk about
that, lance.
i mean the fact is in 2007 the
housing bubble didn't seem to be
a bubble because the prices kept
going up.
it wasn't until the prices went
down that people realized there
was so many margin debts on it.
is that a problem?
is there a concern, lance, if
there is a big margin call in