. >> brenda: a stomach growling? >> no, it's my mouth. >> clayton: gut roll. >> brenda: and we have a lottery winner tomorrow who's going to come on and touch us all how to win the lottery. >> good. >> brenda: and i may not be here tomorrow. >> rick: tune in tomorrow. >> clayton: don't add into the pool. we're going to get tucker some food and log on to foxnews.com for the after the show show and sunday. >> tucker: we will see you tomorrow. >> brenda: sequestration is, but if you think that means the tax hike threat is over, think again. that's the point. >> brenda: sure, but it speaks volumes. revenues mean taxes and we're already seeing how that payroll tax hike is kicking your assets. consumers cutting back on major purchases and hikes cut into paychecks. are more hikes the last thing the economy needs right now. hi, everyone, i'm brenda buttner, this is bulls and bears. let's get right to it. the bulls and bears this week, gary b smith, tobin smith, jonas max ferris and welcome to everybody. scott, they're still

>> i think we did, brenda. look, taxes are tough at anytime, but certainly, in a time like this, where gdp growth just got revised to oh, my goodness, 0.1% on the flat side for q-4. unemployment still ridiculously high. there's no way through it. we just hit the rich and the spenders and the job creators in this country, and it's showing. consumer confidence is falling. purchases of big ticket items are falling, brenda. >> it's not going to work, we're already feeling it. >> brenda: julian, do you agree, tax hikes? good or bad for the economy? >> i think the place we may all agree when you have a weak economy like we have. you don't want to see us going after the deficit the way we are, whether it's the tax increases on anybody or big spending. most of the economists that have looked at this, including the cbo and says that the factors of this obama administration talking about closing loopholes, interest, zero to maybe 1/10 of 1% on gdp, and we are going to cut the debt. i think we do it in the long-term, not

(laughter) >> a different perspective, brenda. >> brenda: we are on cable, but, all right. gary b, are spending cuts responsible for this rally? >> i think so. certainly this week. you know, a lot of times we talk about things on the show that, you know, maybe a little bit inside baseball. maybe a little bit a wall street centric or capitol hill, but in this case sequester-- there's not a person out there that doesn't know about sequester, that's number one, people know about it. number two, do people think it's a big deal? absolutely. people aren't thinking the sequester is small even though it's relatively nothing people think it's huge and three, do people support it in the latest poll i saw, two-thirds of the people across the party support the sequester. so if you think, my gosh, d.c. is doing something that we support and is a big deal, yeah, that's cause for cheer and i think it's reflected in the stock market. >> brenda: okay. >> particularly this week. >> brenda: toby, spending cuts kind of, wall street rally, go together? >> you know, it's part of it. let's look a

brenda. but remember, anybody who has watched this show as long as we've been doing it knows that the economy and the stock market are never correlated except, but one moment at ti. right at the top and then right at the bottom. we're not near the top nearly. what has happened though, we've had 506 interest rate cuts around the world in federal banks. we've had 17 trillion dollars of cash money and john layfield would say, created and put into the system. where else is it going to go? it's not going to employees pockets as julian said, it's gone into corporate conference, higher earnings, a lot of parts of the economy, but the market is telng us that we're not in a recession not ahead. we're not going fast, we're not going slow. earnings are driving this thing and the fed is driving it. >> brenda: gary b, what do you watch to adjust the economy and what's it telling you? >> brenda, i watch three things. one the stock market, if everyone in the u.s. was invested fully in the stock market we ha

it's hittings rightnow. >> brenda: john, what do you think? >> i disagree with kicking the can, but i agree with gary and toby we're fine right now and your money is safe in american banks for now. you can't keep interest rates low for a long time. look what the pain has done, a not of internal savings has something to do with that and we can keep passing the buck on our debt further down the road. eventually we'll have to come to grips with that, but it's going to be a long ways out. >> brenda: really that long, jonas? >> i wouldn't say we're up-- first of all, you probably have some of your money in foreign funds and 401(k)'s, and this is dragging on emerging markets, the russian markets, it's exposed and down a lot relatively thinking. and here we have some of this, but we don't make the depositors to lose money and that causes a real panic, but i will say going forward, and we haven't solved how we're going to unwind a bank properly when a crisis happens, the next time and that's something they didn't solve properly. and we didn't figure o

brenda: okay. neil cavuto, best credit score around. cavuto on business. >> neil: all right, this just n, the watch for armageddon is on. welcome, everybody, i'm neil cavuto, i bet you woke up and were surprised to even see the sun ♪ hallelujah ♪ hours to sequestration, damn nation and not even a hint. and i see pretty much what i don't see. i don't see airports shutting down because security agents were fired. i don't see mental patients wondering the streets because they didn't get their meds even though i see them wandering the streets and i don't see mr. ed popping up in anyone's cheeseburge today. yes, because we fired the food inspectors? that's my beef, politicians scaring us to the bone, big fat liars so far. if this passes for leadership in washington, is it any wonder taxpayers just want to take a pass on washington? . and charles payne, adam lashinsky, charlie gasperino. >> a small fraction thinks we're headed in the right direction. a pox on both houses and lack of leadership and i've got to tell you the sequestration thing

up 40% by 2014. >> brenda: okay. scott, you think this is a no-brainer or not? are you a bull or a bear? >> i'm a bear on that one. i like the sector, brenda, but there's other pipelines and other transports as far as oil goes, a higher dividend. >> brenda: what gives you the best return and your prediction, scott? >> went crazy this week, got the sequester talk in the u.s., you don't have to just stay here at home. you can go overseas, i emg good emerging matter of fact etf. >> brenda: jonas, bull or bear. >> bear on the market. >> brenda: tobin. >> good news about the home starts, believe it or not, people don't write on paper they do it on cad cam software, the leader here. and i think they're up 25, 30% by the end of the year, sales are booming into the construction sector. >> brenda: gary b, bull or bear. >> bearish on this, i think it needs to drop a little. >> brenda: jonas your prediction. >> you don't need a good credit score for an interest rate or a loan. and there's a dating site. and i don't know if they pull your credit score or what. and a top tie

. >> brenda: stephen bull or bear. >> bear. >> brenda: your prediction. >> southwest will be up 25% in a year. >> brenda: jonas bull or bear. >> no he. >> brenda: gary b, your prediction. >> linkedin is the new facebook, i think it hits $200 by the end of the year. >> brenda: jim, what do you think, bull or bear. >> bear, rich valuation. i like zxj and currency on it. >> brenda: gary b what, do you think on that. >> bear. >> brenda: that's clear. jonas your prediction. >> health study about benefits of red wine and dark chocolate reaffirmed this week, good for the economy that's fueled by both of those, france. and france up-- >> you better respond to that, but toby. >> la bear, la bear. >> brenda: i don't agree, i called you dr. jonas and i like that, that works for me. >> and my new diet. >> brenda: oh, i like it. coming up, cornerstone of the cost of freedom, cavuto on business. stay tuned. >> . >> neil: well, your tax refund may have to wait, but the government is not waiting one nano second for the president's health care law. i'm charles payne in for neil cavuto, whether it's the

so, here's brian: -- brenda and alicia on behalf of nectar therapeutics. clap lap (applause) clap >> and the third place winner is jennifer taylor. the company had 13% participation. jennifer? is jennifer here? (applause) >> and for the highest level of employee participation in a small company where 100% of their employees participated, we have bars and tone creative agency and accepting the trophy is eric stekel. eric, thank you so much. congratulations. (applause) >> and we also have langley investment properties and accepting the proof i is blake peterson. is blake here? thank you, blake. (applause) >> and for the most clean

up 25% before it goes down 25%. >> brenda: jonas? >> okay. around word on street. bribing the tonight show to it move to new york city. the credit card-- >> bill or bear. >> letterman in new york-- >> and jay leno, and john ji carson and-- neil cavuto is up next. >> neil: the unions are starting to get loud, but is their message starting to get old? >> glad to have you, and over the top union protests. in michigan, they're mad about a right to work law that starts next week. and in washington, they're mad about all of the automatic spending cuts they say will get worse every week. but with right to work states adding more jobs and with many in the government looking to cut more spending, is it time tore unions to simply get with the program? charles payne, dagen mcdowell, adam lashinsky, charlie gas pregas-- gasperino. >> and with the. >> i love the big raps. >> and communities with fewer presence of unions are doing better communities and businesses. the they drove hostess out of business and they have to figure out the dynamics. th

so, here's brian: -- brenda and alicia on behalf of nectar therapeutics. clap lap (applause) clap >> and the third place winner is jennifer taylor. the company had 13% participation. jennifer? is jennifer here? (applause) >> and for the highest level of employee participation in a small company where 100% of their employees participated, we have bars and tone creative agency and accepting the trophy is eric stekel. eric, thank you so much. congratulations. (applause) >> and we also have langley investment properties and accepting the proof i is blake peterson. is blake here? thank you, blake. (applause) >> and for the most clean commute days participant, blixtar. katrina james accepting the trophy. thank you so much. (applause) >> and for the highest overall co2 savings, nektar saved 300 pounds of co2 by not driving alone. accepting the trophy are brenda chu and alicia collins. (applause) >> thank you so much, guys. and on behalf of the board of supervisors, i want to congratulate every individual and organization that participated in improving the environ

. >> stephanie: my friend brenda who will be coming on in hour three.ears, and she got to see her in chambers yesterday. >> oh good. >> stephanie: justice ginsberg yesterday. >> social security it's pervasive, it's not as though, there is this little federal sphere, as justice kennedy said it affects every area of life. >> stephanie: brenda wrote a great blog about this. and she said tears came to her eyes a couple of times with regard to what ruth bader ginsberg said. this got a laugh yesterday. >> there's two kinds of marriages, the full marriage and then this sort of skim milk marriage. [ laughter ] >> love that. >> stephanie: yeah i know. i have the skim milk marriage. i have low fat. dave in minneapolis, you are on the "stephanie miller show." >> caller: good morning, momma. this is the official gay pastor of the "stephanie miller show" show here. [ bell chimes ] >> caller: the church wasn't that concerned about marriage early on in the early church they saw marriage as a function of the state. it was a property. it was about who owned what, and wh

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week on wall street, brenda?> harris, forget about lions and lambs, march was all about bulls on wall street. on the last trading day of the month, s & p which powers many of your 401(k)'s hit an all-time high. blue chips have been breaking records since early march and will main street follow wall street? the recovery is having a tough time. unemployment, while stubbornly high is falling, but more and more people aren't looking for work and many are working part-time when they would prefer a full-time job. and problems overseas could hit firms here. if the housing market is finding a foundation. corporate profits are strong and confident is up for consumers and companies. there is plenty to move the markets this week. the big number out friday, the most important read on the jobs market. the employment report for march. will the unemployment rate fall again? auto sales numbers are also out, and they can give a sense of consumer sentiment. another important measure of the economy, construction spending is release

joining us now is brenda buttner.reat to see you. >> welcome back. >> i needed a vacation, for my health. >> oh, come on. >> gregg: we're talking about health. so draw the connection for us between obamacare on one hand and companies and employers kicking spouses off their coverage? >> two things, first of all, costs are going up under obamacare. there are various fees that are going into effect next year. right now for example every life every person who is covered by an employer, there is a fee of about a dollar, that is going the up to $56 next year. premiums are going up. all those are issues. then on the other hand, next year we're going to have the federal insurance exchanges. employers not feel so compelled to keep a spouse on their plan if there is another option. two sides to it. >> gregg: next year which health exchanges kick in, then you could really see a bunch of companies kicking spouses off. >> three years ago. this was basically did not exist unemployment it's increasingly happening and next year i thi

brenda buttner, good to see you. >> thank you. >> harris: u.s. secretary of state john kerry says that iraq is involved with the civil war in syria. how? the secretary says that iraq has been helping prop up assad as he fights for power there. kerry making an unannounced visitor to iraq and meeting with nuri al-maliki. and stopping the flow of weapons into neighboring syria. weapons that are only making the civil war more deadly. and steve centanni is here. how are they flowing into syria? >> reporter: according to u.s. officials there are flights just about every day, from iran to syria travelling across the iraqi air space. iran says they carry humanitarian aid, but u.s. says they carry weapons to the syrian government. and secretary of state john kerry urged al-maliki to crack down on the flights requiring they land in iraq for inspection before continuing on to syria. >> we had a very spirited discussion on the subject of the overflights and i made it very clear, anything that supports president assad is problematic. >> kerry suggested the fu

thank you for joining us, brenda.es has increaseed, nine million airs in 2012, close to pre-recession height of 2.2 in 2007. why the increase? >> the stock market. but the bulls are running. during the meltdown the stock market was cut in half. that took away wealth and accumulation of wealth for poor and wealthy. now we have seen a tremendous bull run, the dow was in the red on friday. we back to record highs. a lot has happened in 401(k)'s and also in the stock portfolio. >>heather: and the discrepancy with younger americans who include the generation x group who are stagnant. >> and our parents, from 55 to 73, they doubled their income from the generation that receded them. generation x and generation y, those 45 and younger have been stagnant for the generation preceding them. that is a huge discrepancy which is what the american dream is about, that you will do better than your parents. you work hard, go to college, you will do better but that is falling apart. >>heather: what do younger americans need to do to m

senior business correspondent and anchor of bulls and bears, brenda buttner has more, brenda?is, the sequester is officially on, but wall street shrugging it off. a-okay for your 401(k). the dow less than 1% away from its all time high and broader market part of your retirement plan a record, too, 3% away from its highs. and the bulls have been running hard for a while. blue chips up 115% from their crash low some four years ago, why is wall street ignoring washington and its drama? in part because of the head of the fed is keeping money cheap, printing dollars to keep interest rates low. that makes investors choose stocks because bonds won't make you much, but the economy is not doing much either. we are barely in a recovery here and over there, things are worse. the euro zone and japan in on. that can't help, but hurt u.s. companies. there's plenty ahead that could make the bulls stumble a bit, too, friday's unemployment report for february is forecast to show unemployment still stubbornly near 8% and gas prices way up could put the brakes on consumer spending yet stocks are

. >> what happened was the day after the anniversary of september 11th my client, brenda brinkston wase of allegiance and give loyal to another country as well as singing the mexican national anthem. >> the school said it was some sort of cultural awareness, some sort of study annal as some sort of cultural discussion. did they also do the american pledge of allegiance and american national anthem? >> that was not part of the assignment to do the american pledge of allegiance. it's been a supreme court precedent since 1943 west virginia state board of education versus barnett it's illegal to compel the students to say the american pledge of allegiance and also to compel. >> greta: i interrupted you. >> it should also be illegal to compel an american students to recite the pledge of a different country. >> greta: so what happened to your client? >> my client said that she was having a conscious objection to this, she felt it was not right to recite the mexican pledge of allegiance and when she spoke to her teacher about it her teacher start today coerce her to actually say it and said t

brittany dropped out of sight, brenda did. apparently taken some of her pets. her two little dogs. >> her dogs were gone, huey and coo-bear. her little white bijons. >> but brittany also had cats and they were still in the house, alone. >> one of the doors was opened for the cat to go in and out. >> some people do that, it's true. but brittany? >> my sister loved her cats very, very much. and she would never just go away on a trip and leave them to fend for themselves. >> where had brittany gone? why would she take her dogs and leave her cats and take off, vanish on the very day she was all set to appear in court to resolve a bitter feud, a feud which she told her family kept her in constant fear. >> it was very strange that all of a sudden the day she was supposed to be in court, now she's gone. >>> coming up, what was brittany running from? and did this free spirit sometimes trust the wrong people? >> over the years, eight spare room. new cascade platinum's triple-action formula not only cleans your dishes, it helps keep you

here for that and a preview of what could lie ahead, brenda buttner. good morning to you. >> good morning. >> jamie: we will know tonight when the overseas markets open. do you think it will -- i guess the u.s. is a gauge for those as well? will we know as early as this evening? >> yeah, i think we almost know right now. when the cuts were going into effect on friday, pretty much wall street said, ahh, who cares? it's a small percentage of the dep deficit and the debt that we have. and also, there are other factors that are in play, which are pushing wall street higher. we are now within .5% of an all-time high for the markets. we have been up 115% from the crash low. so we have come a long way very fast, in part because the fed -- ben bernanke has been pumping trillions of dollars into the economy, keeping interest rates at all-time lows, near zero. and wall street likes that -- >> jamie: i imagine -- is that the right answer, though? >> absolutely not. there are a lot of economist who is say this is the bubble we are going to be facing this bubble at

yet, up go through, brenda, i hate to keep pounding on it, lowering taxing when europe or canada or states do, it is it the way to grow the economy. when we raise taxings the government gets more money and the government takes our money is spend it inefficiently. my the department of the agriculture is a better way to spend our money. the department of defense spends so efficiently. no one can make that argument. >> but gary, if you look at tax hikes, you are saying the historical perspective. the democrats are going back to the 1980ings. raise taxes on certain partings. we did that with social security because five or six people working for every one beneficencary. today two people are working for one. we can't afford it they are pretending our economy ishe same as in the 80s. >> we could afford it, the left tells us not to worry about it. apparently we don't have to worry about it. >> it worked so well . take it and work and expect a different out come. >> i don't think the tax cuts worked so well they are flawed because they are not matching spending. >> went up. >> there is no question

. >> brenda: that's it. neil, take it away. >> neil: think you're paying a lot for gas now. and make a buck 40 a gallon more, maybe soon. when an international body called for it and american members of that body don't raise actions to it, let's just say they're of all so imf. and welcome, i'm neil cavuto. the international monetary fund calling for $1.40 tax in the us of a. and protesters are ready to put the kibosh on the keystone pipeline they say to save the environment. what is weird is how their saving can be so selective. they're not quacking about a thousand dead ducks showing up in a chinese river, little more than a week after 16,000 just as dead pigs showed up floating in another chinese river. no, a far, far bigger polluter gets a pass, we get a kick in the, well, the gas. to ben stein, charles payne, dagen mcdowell along with charlie gasperino, what do you think. >> imf, they're bloated, arrogant, more harm to the third world than you can imagine and now trying to do the same to us. by the way, when did they get in charge of the environment? what's going on. the

yet, up go through, brenda, i hate to keep pounding on it, lowering taxing when europe or canada or states do, it is it the way to grow the economy. when we raise taxings the government gets more money and the government takes our money is spend it inefficiently. my the department of the agriculture is a better way to spend our money. the department of defense spends so efficiently. no one can make that argument. >> but gary, if you look at tax hikes, you are saying the historical perspective. the democrats are going back to the 1980ings. raise taxes on certain partings. we did that with social security because five or six people working for every one beneficencary. today two people are working for one. we can't afford it they are pretending our economy is the same as in the 80s. >> we could afford it, the left tells us not to worry about it. apparently we don't have to worry about it. >> it worked so well . take it and work and expect a different out come. >> i don't think the tax cuts worked so well they are flawed because they are not matching spending. >> went up. >> there is no questi

brenda buttner, anchor of "bulls and bears." is that young people are avoiding debt and not getting sort of themselves mixed up in some of these predatory practices that young people have been the target in the past. so had a part of the story is good, right? >> absolutely. during the great recession everybody stopped using their credit cards but particularly those under 35. especially undergraduates as you brought up. in a sense that is good, whenever you hear from a personal financial expert, get some extra money, pay off your credit card debt, but having no credit and misusing credit are two different things and could have potentially difficult implications for our economy and for these young adults. >> rick: i remember my mother telling me, go and get one credit card, buy something you need but get your books and put it on the card and then pay it off in full. that is the way to start establishing a good credit? >> who is your mom. eileen -- that is good advice to your son. that is exactly what you do. you need to have a cre

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i am brenda barrels and work at san francisco general, and all i want to say is over the years i have been a 30 year employee of the city and now i'm taking home what i made six years ago, so something is absolutely wrong, and this is only going to make it worse. i mean we all sucked it up to pay our pension. i know employees that lost their homes for that get back and now you want to take more from the low paid people. it doesn't make any sense and it doesn't matter even if it's legal it's just not right for a city to behave that toward the people like me and others who work our butts off for the city. me, i am one of those people, i am working like an administrator. i'm not getting paid like an administrator but that's okay. i care about the patients i take care of it and there a lot of us out there like that and for you to do this when we give you everything i think is outrageous and i hope you guys don't go along with this and keep the workers in san francisco. we can't be happy but at least be fair. [applause] >> supervisors, my name is anne zane and active member of seiu and sen

brenda, snosa who is in the blue shirt, he works in amsterdam and received his ba and his ma in 2005 from the frank mart institute in holland. he has exhibited in tipai, pa ris, and many others and now san francisco. last mobsinger he opened his first large scale solo expedition at land of tomorrow in kentucky, which i didn't know about. i encourage you to look up that institution. it is an incredible, incredible space. and program. his work resides in the sachi and smithsonian and others. he has written about in art publications his work was recognized by time magazine as one of the top ten inventions of 2012. it is represented by lonkini gallery in london and now i would like to have him come up and speak. [ applause ] i'm benat and based in amsterdam and i want to show you some works. so, my work and installations, and sculpture and photos and site and working on the architecture or the history of the location. i am interested in a motion of friction between construction and de, construction and the physical state of a building and a moment of revolution and perishableness and in

. >> reporter: brenda lynn goodall got married during the brief period when gay marriage was legal. she said when president obama changed his stance on gay marriage it went a long way in winning people over. >> i think when he changed his mind, i think he was saying that you know i know friends and family members that are lbgt and there's no reason why they shouldn't have the same rights as i do. >> reporter: but that argument hasn't convinced everyone. we spoke to people here in walnut creek who are against overturning proposition 8 but didn't want to go on camera. some wouldn't give us an opinion at all. still others were undecided. many said the same sex marriage debate could be more contentious away from urban areas in other parts of the country. >> in california i think we have an abundance of openly gay people so we're much more used to it. it's just normal for us. versus you know like maybe in another location people are not out of the closet quite yet. >> reporter: it's interesting both supporters and opponents of same sex marriage say a lot of the work needs to be done here

. >> reporter: brenda lynn goodall got married during the brief period when gay marriage was legal. she said when president obama changed his stance on gay marriage it went a long way in winning people over. >> i think when he changed his mind, i think he was saying that you know i know friends and family members that are lbgt and there's no reason why they shouldn't have the same rights as i do. >> reporter: but that argument hasn't convinced everyone. we spoke to people here in walnut creek who are against overturning proposition 8 but didn't want to go on camera. some wouldn't give us an opinion at all. still others were undecided. many said the same sex marriage debate could be more contentious away from urban areas in other parts of the country. >> in california i think we have an abundance of openly gay people so we're much more used to it. it's just normal for us. versus you know like maybe in another location people are not out of the closet quite yet. >> reporter: it's interesting both supporters and opponents of same sex marriage say a lot of the work needs to be done here