we spoke with charles biderman, c.e.o. at trim tabs, which tracks money going into and out of stocks, and began by asking him about investor confidence. >> the retail investor is scared that individuals have been selling for four years. hedge funds have had net reductions for fours years. there have been only two sources of money for the stock market. the u.s. government has been printing $100 billion a month of new money and some of that is finding its way into stocks, and companies have a huge amount of cash on their balance sheets, so that has created an environment where there's no volume because there are no buyers. >> tom: so what are some of the economic implication, let alone the societal implications of this. >> more money has been made in investing in stocks than creating companies to invest in, and that can't keep going. the real bubble is the equity market. and unless the u.s. economy starts to grow at a very rapid pace, we see that there's going to be a lot of unemployed, formerly rich portfolio manageres, loo