we turn to two experts to answer that: brian wesbury, chief economist at first trust advisors and john manley, chief equity strategist at wells fargo advantage funds. gentlemen, thanks for joining us. let me begin with you, brian. is more fed stimulus coming, and what does fairly soon mean in fed-speak? >> yeah. well, it can mean anything. they have been saying fairly soon now for almost the past year, susie. people have been talking about this the qe-3. i personally don't think it's coming. one of the key reasons is this meet, the minutes were released. it was about two weeks ago, and that was before the employment report, which was much stronger than expected, before a very strong retail sales report, and before a very song industrial production report. so, the economy has gotten better, and as a result, i don't think the fed is going to have the justification that it wants to do another round of quantitative easing. >> susie: john, do you agree, is the economy doing good enough on its own that it doesn't need any action from the fed, what do you think? >> i'd like to think so. i thi