and how is ethan allen weathering what many are calling a pause in the economy? president and ceo of ethan interiors to find out where his company's headed. welcome back to "mad money." how are you? >> good to see you. >> good to see you. >> i have not seen these in the store. please have a seat and tell us what we've got here. >> well, first of all, i'm going to make you an ethan allen retailer. so this set becomes an ethan allen design studio. >> look, i think there's one very needed. i don't see much up here. >> absolutely. >> you are now officially an ethan allen retailer. >> that means these are in stock and they can be bought right now? >> this is very important initiative, which is today you have to be relevant. relevant means that today people are, in fact, even wanting faster deliveries. instant gratification is the name of the game. but at ethan allen, we have the opportunity of providing them, you might say faster deliveries and also custom. what i'm sitting on is an ethan allen chair that is what we call on-demand. in other words, it's in stock, and th

then we have the ceo of ethan allen on the show, boy are their sales lumpy.st week to week. you see good traffic one month, and they're switching to direct mail as well as more in stock furniture to make the business less lumpy. on a more macro level we have lumpiness in china sales where there's no lumpiness before. that's reflected in the hideous decline. if you want to keep track of the lumpiness i'm sure the shut down from the chinese lunar new year will only increase the lumpiness. ibm might as well rename itself clarence rutherford incorporated as it's nothing but lumpy. and it looks as though ibm's ceo may have done the same. but you want to know which stocks are going higher the ones that had no lumpiness at all. just terrific linearity. united technology's honey well stands out. momentum is building up. same with dr horton which was up huge because the ceo said on the conference call in january, especially this last week our sales have been better than expected. i'm excited about where we are. holy cow, that's not an eddie haskell suckup, that's june

where it's warm ethan allen did great amount of business.t would lead us to think that the weather theory is not all wrong. but, then, howard schultz comes back and says, no, no, no, it's a secular trend. i guess what i'm saying, carl, this is one of the harder moments i've seen in my career to really make sense of things, but the president could help by saying, look, the federal government's got to get back in the game. not the fed, but the federal government has to get back in the game of helping, the states are, as the states' coffers burgeon we're seeing the states do good things, but i look what's coming out and i say to myself, do you know what, we had a bad fourth quarter. it was bad. >> yeah. we're going to get an advance read on it on thursday when we get a number. maybe with a three handle but we'll see. >> the employment number is bad. >> today if we're down six on the dow we haven't done that since august, the middle of august, do you feel like this breather that we appear to be looking at is real today? >> when you come in and d

ethan hawks, for before midnight. billy ray to captain phillips, and jeff, and john readily and and larry winter. >> the best of the screen play, nominees are, eric warren for american hustle woody allen for blue jasmine. spike jones for her. and bob nelson for nebraska. now again, we are listening live from hollywood, two names we have heard quite a bit so far the movies from american hustle and 12 years of slaves and we will keep track of what is happening and bring you all of the details later on. >>> and involving san francisco politicians and police, that meeting comes after a string of pedestrian accidents and today's goal will be reviewing investigating and reporting collisions involving pedestrians and cyclists. mayor ed lee is increasing enforcement and citywide public awareness on the issue. >>> a woman is recovering from a leg injury which happened on the corner of sampson. she was taken to san francisco general hospital. now the flu deaths have occurred in many counties. a woman with underlying health problems died from the flu yesterday. and an 84-year-old man with several issues has died and the death of a 48-year-old man last month was flu related. our reports showed at

ethan hawk for "before midnight, billy ray for "captain phillips", steve coo ganl and jeff pope for "philomena" and john ridley for '12 years a slave". for best original zreen play, "american hustle," wooddy allen." >> for best animated feature film we're pleased to nominate "the kroods, accounts chris sanders, "despicable me 2", "earnest and so les teen", frozen" and "the wind rises." >> for best documentary feature, the nominees are the act of killing, joshua open hiemer and sore ren sen, "cutie and the boxer", jackry hine zer ling and lydia deen pill cher were "dirty wars", "the square" and "20 feet from stardom", nominees to be determined. >> for best foreign language filling, the nominees are from bell gum "the broken circle breakdown," from hitly, "the great beauty, from denmark, "the hunt" from cambodia, "the missing picture" and from palestine "omar". >> for best achievement in directing, david o. hustle for "american hustle, alfonso occur ron for gravity, alexander payne for nebraska steve mcqueen for "12 years a slave" and martin score says see for "the wolf of kwal street". >>> best performance by an actress in a leading role, nominees are him aadams, cate blanchett, sandra bullock,