with that, i would like to invite my colleagues sue curren and the add sfrar -- administrator of laguna honda. >> good evening, we are going to talk to you about our hospitals and implementing health reform and integration with the department. so san francisco general has been busy planning the new hospital. they found time for the two executive committees to meet on a quarterly basis since last year and we are here telling you what we have been doing. first switchboard and telephone operators as of july this year they are housed at san francisco general and in rirn they -- return they are able to answer phone calls regarding lag una honda and sue is going to talk about the rest. >> so on food and nutrition services we have really got n our leadership together to share best practices and knowledge and also to share some of the tools they use to plan diets and that sort of thing and it's been fairly successful because at san francisco general we did have some issues in our food services area and sent over many of her staff to get to some of the regulatory requirements and that's part of

>> the swiss have a strong -@curren estimate they hurt the exporters. they can't do it alone.oo small. they set a good example for the u.s. we should follow it. david: steve what do you think about the gold standard. >> fiat currency, one way to my preferred solution is competing currencies. people ought to go out there, create currency of their own backed by commodity of their choice and let them compete in the maaketplace. david: mark, you have a chance to change your opinion? weee you convinced at all? >> no, no we should not go on the gold standard. get our debt under control and% allow ur currency to continue to be a really strong currency n next couple years i think our currency will rally against all the other major world currencies, maybe absent the franc. we don't need a gold standard and that would robably hurt growth more than it would help. david: that will be it. mark sebastian, steve ffrbes, kmele foster. you have a special on "the independents"? >> "the independents" retrospective on elections. what do we do now? ron paul and cast of othee folks talking about th

even though they're self-directed economy, their own central bank, their own curren sit endgame is getting further and further away in my view. globally that is a big problem. it is not a problem today. it will not hurt the s&p on its ways to new highs this week. liz: hank, just because we saw a record with s&p doesn't mean our markets were not negatively affected in japan. maybe we would be higher if it weren't for japan going into recession, i don't know. you believe bullishness is way to go. you're not saying there no reason not to be bullish on equities? surely there are specific areas that might do bet than others? >> first of all the market has proven that geopolitical events or other exogenous events like ebola are not going to knock it down of the u.s. economy rate of growth is actually starting to accelerate. we might actually be moving to a 3% environment compared to the 2% environment that has described the recovery for the last four years. valuations aren't stretched. in fact they look attractive relative to interest rates and inflation. we look at it. there is no reason despit