wong ullrich. >>> a trend in the way you get your news. why the home delivery of your local newspaper could soon go the way of the typewriter. >>> back with us, carmenllrich. and in l.a. james andrews, >>> back with us, carmen wong ullrich. and in l.a. james andrews, social media strategist and co-founder of everywhere communications consulting firm. welcome aboard. okay. how we get our daily news changing in a major way and your morning paper could be a thing of the past very soon. this saddens me since i started in papers, of course. according to new research out from a lab at harvard, by 2012, ipad sales alone will surpass home-delivered newspaper subscriptions. well, didn't we see this coming? >> well, absolutely. and if you look at social media and the way people are getting news now in social media. those people are our paper boys. if you're following somebody on twitter, social media, i'm following a friend, i'm getting news anyway from a digital source. the growth of the ipad is no stranger. that's going to be a driving force. >> and if you look at the numbers of the folks under 30 adults under who subscribe to newspapers, it's in the teens,

joining us now carmen wong ullrich thanks, both of you. quantitative easing. many folks expect the federal reserve to make to jump start the economy. it sounds complicated, it's not really. it's simply the government buying stuff, buying assets, things like mortgages. it's why it's believed the fed is going to turn to another round of quantitative easing. is this due to anticipation of this quantitative easing? i can't hardly say it or expectations of a big republican win in november? or is it something else? >> well, i think the very strong profitability american companies have enjoyed by cutting their costs and also expanding in asia is an important factor. but the anticipation of a republican victory, i think is having a lot to do with stocks because the business community has soured on the obama administration rightly or wrongly they have. i don't think that quantitative easing is expected to accomplish a lot. i recently participated in a poll of forecasters over 90% of us, you know, anticipate qe-2 to go out of the docks, you know, on november 4th. but we