carol roth author of "the entrepreneur equation" and steve saks and michael from janney montgomery smith. good to have you here. let me start with you, scott. what do you think about this move? are we going to get more of this? is this just the beginning, or are we in for pullbacks considering what could be coming to washington the next couple of months? >> i think pullbacks are norm a. let's face it, the last couple of months have been a big party. ben bernanke invited us and i don't think the punch bowl goes away. >> the fed is the key issue right now. does that trump the fundamentals, all the earnings we're getting, you pay more attention to the fed? >> you think we have low growth and quite frankly investors are starved for air. they have been holding their breath for four years. there is no oxygen in any other market. there's no place to go for yield. therefore, essentially i think ben is terroristing it to the point to where they got to jump into risk assets and that's what we're seeing. >> david, does that make you bullish as well? >> david? >> we do have a david as well. david st

joining us now is kirsten powers from the daily beast and carol roth, radio show host. with you, kirsten. i think that the president will use an executive order to ram through restrictions on assault weapons, high capacity magazines and universal background checks, i think he'll do it and win on this one. what say you? >> well, they certainly have talks about doing that, but remains to be seen. i'm the not going to be so certain that's what he's going to do. i do want to comment on those, the things that the n.r.a. has been saying. i'm not sure what they expect the vice-president to talk to them about. they're the n.r.a. so it seems like he would speak to them about guns. it doesn't mean that he's not looking at other aspects of this, as you mentioned's meeting with the video game industry and hollywood people and hopefully a mental health component to this, but for the n.r.a. to come out and say all he did was focus on guns. when you're meeting with the national rifle association what you're talking about is guns. stuart: that's a fair point. i'm the not taking sides.

the breaks news we're following is ben smit of buzz feed, carol roth radio host and maria cardona, the democratic strategist and cnn contributor and ali velshi our chief business correspondent. what do you make of this deal that looks like it's going to be a deal, the house looks like it's going to follow the senate's lead, carol, pleat go to you first. good deal or bad deal? >> well, i guess it depends on for who. for the american people i think this is a mediocre deal at best because it doesn't have a solution. i have a very hard time throwing a parade for a congress that took 13 months to get a mediocre solution that doesn't address spending, doesn't address the debt, raises taxes not only on the wealthy but i keep hearing it's not raising taxes on the middle class. that's not true. the payroll tax cut is expiring. so taxes are going up for everybody. we're going to end up in a situation where we end up fighting over the debt ceiling and sequestration in two months. so maybe the market makes out okay but the american people didn't make out okay with this. >> but that payroll tax cut

joining the conversation ed pbatowski, carol roth and our own rick santelli. you heard harry in terms of an expectation of a huge crash. ed, what do you say about that? >> well, i don't know. harry's philosophy and his thought process i agree with. it's just very difficult for the timing. i don't see a huge crash coming. i do saw that, you know, you asked what is the stimulus for markets going higher. you'll see what harry said, a stronger worldwide economy. the united states, you know, the best thing that will happen to the united states is we won't see terrible earnings right now. the thing to watch, maria, is the ten-year treasury. when the ten-year treasury starts to gain momentum in terms of rates rising, you'll actually see the stock market do well, but at some point after about another 150 to 200 basis points on the ten-year treasury rising. >> right. >> we'll start seeing valuations stretch, and that's going to happen towards the second half of the year. i agree, we'll have a rough market towards second half of the year based on what we know now, but d

joining us from chicago, business strategist and former investment banker carol roth and also carol willwell. you know, carol, i heard chicago referred to as chi-rack. and the murder and gun violence seems to be out of control in your city. >> it's absolutely out of control. chicago has the dubious distinction as the murder capital of the united states right now. and i think what's lost in this broader dialog is that we're not focusing so much on the perpetrators, the criminals, all of the discussion seems to be focused on the methodology. i can tell you here in chicago shall the problem is related to the repeat offenders, to gangs and to drugs. it has nothing to do with assault weapons. most of these crimes are perpetrated with handguns, so, some suggestion that banning an assault weapon or even just to focus on something as simple as mental health is going to fix gun violence in chicago is completely preposterous. charles: i've got it tell you my son listens to a lot of rap music and consequently i get to listen to it, not old school, but the new stuff. the violent lyrics in the music

joining us now is a recovery investment banker, carol roth wgn radio host.do see, put politics aside for a second and you really do, you've got the makings of an upbeat, an up tick in america's economy, do you see it my way? >> i see it your way, this is very good news. we're on that road, stuart. but we cannot put politics completely to the side. our road has lots of potholes, lots of road blocks and possibly has a lot of tolls along the way. so, i think the biggest threat to the recovery happens to be our own government. >> yes, but -- and i'm just suggesting that if we build that pipeline and if we allow more fracking, you could have an energy based jobs recovery, i know that those are big if's, but i think we could get it if we get the pipeline and more fracking. go ahead, last word to you on this one. >> right, right, we have that, but also on the other side, remember what's going on internationally. we have a race to the bottom in terms of a currency war. right now, the dollar is going to start to strengthen from my opinion and i think when that happen