the unique design of the guggenheim's building was the creation of the visionary architect frank lloydht, so i guess you can say that the kids who got their work exhibited there all had the "wright" stuff. >> it's been a pastime in school yards and city streets for years. now, in some schools, it's being recognized as an official sport. >> it's an activity we're used to seeing on the sidewalk. >> every girl jumps rope at some point. [ whistle blows ] >> but not every girl jumps like this. these are stan's pepper steppers. the world-champion double-dutch team is showing new york public schools how it's done. >> listen out for the whistle. katie, get ready to go in. [ whistle blows ] >> new york is the first school district to introduce double dutch as an official sport. >> anybody can learn it. it just takes time to get to a certain level of double dutch. >> competition-level double dutch is scored on a point system. there are three components. the first is compulsory. that means there are certain requirements. the second component jumpers are judged on is speed -- how many times the le

every project is not going to be regarded the same way to the nine is -- guggenheim is.s there a certain approach that you take something like disney when you know that there really is a lot riding on this? >> historically public buildings like concert halls, government had angs, libraries, consistent level of iconic city that set them aside from the rest of the buildings. roman city plans had arenas and forums that set them aside and the rest of the housing cuddled up to them and that was mostly smaller dwellings that -- the history -- it has to do with the pride. if you go to a city and you see the courthouse and the church and the cathedral. there is a sort of unimportance for us -- there is a sort of an importance for us to have those kinds of buildings. million.ll cost $207 at the same time that was built, there were $300 million. it does not have to cost more to do that. if you look at the blocks of medal andtook the tweaked it at the corners to make it look like there was a sense of movement. feelingying to give without resorting to his store coal motifs -- histor

she is still president or chairman of the guggenheim? >> yes, and the guggenheim museum, and i am very proud of the work she has done there. it has got a financial aspect, but it also has a cultural and as the edit, and she is an avid collector. she knows the artists. she knows the galleries. she knows the people involved in this world. it is very fascinating. it is an intellectually based world. there are the bubble aspects of it and the high prices and the options. >> you dedicate this book to "my daughters, rachel and victoria, whose futures inspired me to write this book." tell us about rachel and victoria and why they inspired it. >> two daughters. they are in the middle now of launching very budding careers, and we are quite proud of them. rachel is a journalist. she is in your business. she went to one of the great journalism schools at northwestern. she has moved through the ranks, green bay, phoenix, now in a big station in atlanta. and really interested in journalism and law and constitutional issues. i am very proud of her. an

disney rose 2.5% and hit an all-time high after an analyst guggenheim said it's a buy. they say the company's positive momentum should carry into 2015 and 2016 with hell from the marvel, pixar and "star wars" brands. >>> in france there's a big win by the president by upholding the 75% tax rate on executive and celebrity pay. they pay a 50% tax on annual salaries above $1.4 million in combination with additional taxes the effective rate is 75%. the french president introduced this proposal two years ago in his campaign to unseat former president nicolas sarkozy. it will apply to 2013 and 2014 earnings. >>> next, job fwroet growth is picking up and scrutiny of what's being added to the economy. a breakdown of who is hiring and how it affects the economic recovery. do you feel like airline service is getting worse while prices are going higher? there may be ways to work the service. we reveal how to turn the next travel nightmare into a smooth ride. those stories and more as "real money" continues. >>> american job growth has picked up steam in the last few months with ar

guggenheim securities raised expectations on shares. of sevenh price target dollars per share.ng shares of crocs groupng after blackstone offered $200 million investment in the struggling footwear maker. it tries to revive its fortune after some sources say it tried to sell the entire company. cristina alesci have been following the story. explain to me what happened. a heard they were looking for buyer for the entire company but they get a partial investment from blackstone group what do we know? let's blackstone is giving investors confidence. they could not come to a likely evaluation meeting of the minds about how much the company is actually worth, so they settled on the deal of a private investment. less because of what crocs will do, take the investment it was getting from blackstone group and repurchase some of the shares publicly traded. that is why we are seeing a positive reaction to the market. isp in mind also that this an approval from a big and well- known investor that says we are confident the company can turn itself around and introduce new expandingnd continu

the national book award finalist and a guggenheim fellow in the three time recipient from the pennsylvania humanities council living in delaware with his wonderful wife. i am pleased to welcome him to the stage so he could talk about his book "young mr. roosevelt" after he takes your questions he will be outside here in the lobby i am sure he will be happy to sign all the books you go by because you are inspired by his top. ladies and gentlemen, stanley weintraub. [applause] >> fourth term presidential campaign we were near the end of world war ii and many soldiers, 11 billion in uniform, i wanted to find out they voted and why they voted the way they did. i had teams of people around the country i also asked people who went through that period how they voted. quite a number said i voted for roosevelt because he is the navy man. that surprised me i did not expect that. i decided i would go back to find out what kind of a navy man he was. this book is the of results. very often the subject for a future book emanates from the previous book or the research know better examples could be found

guggenheim upgrading the company to a buy from neutral, also giving it an $87 price target that from$77. they see a lot of positive catalysts coming in the next few years, one of them the year 2015 when disney will open a park in shanghai. also the momentum from movies like frozen. back to you. lori: apple telling shareholders to just say no to carl icahn, demanding apple increase buybacks and dividends, but the showdown at apple has really begun. what can we expect next? macdonald has the bottom line. >> reporter: i may test the waters for a proxy fight, he was back then saying apple is not a bank, shareholders don't want to be investing in a bank given the sizable cash on the balance sheet now, approaching $149 billion, apple is saying, you know what, carl icahn? no dice. the board is advising its shareholders to say no to carl icahn's demand to increase the stock buyback and dividend to $150 billion from an already $100 billion, you know, repatriation of capital back to shareholders. here's what it says, we recommend a vote against this proposal. here's what apple is saying, that

in 2009 she received a push cart prize, a guggenheim fellowship, a fellowship from the american council of learned societies and two national endowment for the humanities fellowships among others. last year she was elected a fellow of the american academy of arts and sciences. a former director of the leon leavy center for buying agraph in new york. she teaches in the msa programs of the new school glover columbia university school of the arts and has taught sarah lawrence college and union college in new yorkie she was washington irving professor of modern literary. please welcome brenda wineapple and nathaniel philbrick. [applause] >> on my way over here, nathaniel and i talked about how both of these subjects are obviously the most -- among the most notable eras of american history. how could we characterize a comparative deal between your book and brenda's when it comes to intensity, and relevance, where both in the revolution and the civil war. there wasn't very much of a clear future in either era. >> i was thinking about this question when i heard about the great opportunity to b

it did get an upgrade to buy at guggenheim, several reasons, frozen, the movie, doing really well at the box office, in fact, best since the lion king back in 1994. disney leading the dow today, up 2.2%, also leading the broader market, leading the s&p 500. and most of the day's gain on the dow is because of a positive contribution from disney. another stock that we're talking about is cooper tire and rubber. you know, tomorrow a deal with india's apollo tire was supposed to be completed. financing for that deal dried up, so it's no longer going to happen. but cooper tire having a nice reaction as a result. back to you. cheryl: all right, lauren, thank you very much. we'll see you in just a little bit. >> all right. cheryl: closing bell ringing 51 minutes from now, and car buyers are rushing to auto dealerships, but how to you, the investor, profit from this buying frenzy? we're going to bring you your investing road map just as soon as we return. and remember french actor gerard depar due's dramatic decision to become a tax exile in russia? well, now france's socialist government is

. >> upgraded to buy at guggenheim. stock's not that cheap, but it is the classic stock for that group. that's why it's moving. could go higher 2014. >> pop to move 1%. >> nothing exciting with this stock but the sector's been doing very well. seagates a stock we own long in 2014. nice to see it going higher. >> key mobile, a big pop, 17%, the move, doc? >> yeah. and melissa, as you know, underpressure, muddy waters, everybody else all over this one. as it breaks down, all of a sunday, morgan stanley discloses 5.2% stake, stock zooms on that and hasn't stopped yet. a lot of a short squeeze going and it could continue for a couple of days. >> pop for whole foods up 2%. josh brown? >> i like whole foods the business. they've got a lot going for them, much higher margins than costco and walmart, better growth, opening 40 stores a year. but i think the street's already priced all of that in. selling for 39 times earnings. just like wynn resorts, i've got to wait for some pullback before i pull the trigger on a long position

at $76.26 they got the upgrade with guggenheim.urther multiple expansion by robust content and international growth. also raising the price target up at $87. it is $11 below that right now. stuart: one of the themes on the program has been the age group of the of millenials if they would start to withdraw support for obama. it was a key group to get their reelected 2012. are they now turning their backs on the president? according to a new poll by harvard just 18 percent support of the nsa spying program. our next guest joins us now. you say be an assay spying story is a big deal for young people and is it the key issue that turns them against the president? >> the straw that broke the camel's back. the cnn poll found the month that the edward snowden scandal broke the approval rating under 30 fell by 17 percent. we see a deep distrust building from the irs scandals, a benghazi, and then the nsa scandal and we saw a 17% decline in one month. so this is the main issue perhaps. stuart: a majority of millenials 57% now disapprove of o

cantor fitzgerald sends their target to $145, guggenheim securities to 140 from 105, they both met withent, they like the brand exclusivity. the stock has more than doubled this year. >> that's why. >> i know, but these are pretty heady target bumps. 140, 145 bucks. no movement? well, it had the movement. >> exactly. more than a double this year. today's under the radar stock, sun stone hotel investors. >> ever heard of them. >> really under the radar. >> there you go. southern california based lodging upgraded to out perform to market perform. price target of 14.50, about two bucks more. you're a reit known for yields. little odd to find out the yield in this name is 1.6%. >> and the ten-year touching 2.85 today. where is the tradeoff there. >> you get to buy the owner of a marriott and others. >> there you go. >> new month mining jumping 2% today after hitting a 52-week low yesterday. all coming amid reports they may be planning a joint bid on the massive copper mine in peru. loss bombbass aside is that enough to buy new month mining down 50% on the year. start talking numbers, andy b

raised that guggenheim securities. of the best performers in the standard & poor's five hundred today. it is up almost 53% for the year. washe next hour, netflix the s&p 500 best-performing stock of 2013. it still is. we still have a couple of days left. can a keep soaring in the new year? that is the question we will ask. >> of barbara joins us to talk inut netflix's prospects 2014. we will be back with more "market makers." ♪ >> live from bloomberg headquarters in new york, this is "market makers," with erik schatzker and stephanie ruhle. >> dividends of on demand. netflix has stellar stock performance. can this produce a sequel in 2014? lawyer, the business needs attorneys to fly through red tape. the man who is starting the first drug law practice. >> the leaders and washington who are sure to shape the political landscape. this is "market makers," 11:00 in new york city. >> i am scarlet fu, stephanie is off today. i am waiting for her tweet. >> we will see that. time for the newsfeed feed, top business stories fro

the number one stock of the almost 3%.ey, up the stock hit an all-time high after an a grade to guggenheimneutral. "iron man 3" is carrying hollywood to a new high for 2013. what is amazing is that these movies make so much more money throughout the year than they do in their opening weekend. even if they make a few hundred million in the opening weekend, they can make another few hundred million the next few months. toys, lunch boxes, thermoses, and all of the other things. >> and you have got all of them. >> i heard the closing bell. >> what an interesting stock market it has been today. and minus. >> the s&p is down >> both publicly and confidentially. >> i checked. you do not want to believe everything a spokesperson tells you. they said it is not for sale. things could change. what is interesting about this story is that you have a chinese billionaire -- i think he is a billionaire -- interested in making such a splashy investment. i do hear from some and mende people i speak to, lawyers and bankers, -- some and mende &a people,some m lawyers and bankers. the government is releasing s

two member and guggenheim and company bought the dodgers?lars, they look like champions of year later because people pay for live sports. >> people pay for live sports and also did coin. to switch to bitcoin and its viability as a currency because governments are now clamping down on it, saying it is not viable, trying to ban dealings in bitcoin. now is richard falk and wrath, former white house adviser on security. richard, you have to wonder, these different governments have their own reasons for why they don't want to validate it coin, but how much of it is due to the fact we are not sure how security is? up with've not yet come a clear answer on how they're going to handle it. the u.s. government seems to be moving towards an attitude that says the third parties and intermediaries the exchanges that allow you to go from bitcoin to fiat currency will be subject to regulation. but the peer networks and virtual space are exempt. it is not sure that is going to work, either. the government has gone so far as to seize the bitcoin property of

it got the upgrade into a buy from guggenheim partners it expects further multiple expansion and driven is positive. it is not just to is the but five other components we will show you those dupont dupont, american express, express, 3ma and many continue to do dominate the market and will continue to rise but we will see a lot of action tomorrow of the final trading day of the year. cheryl: interesting guess things settle in for the year. it is time for the stock radar we have seen the note joe, you are big right now. really big international stocks but here at home you say focus of quality? it is all about quality? up the last six months it is only up to% but it has room to run it? >> what we are seeing is a shift from the low growth environment and data very slow-growth environment it is what you see now is the fed is stepping back end end, only one of those that are more industrial in nature to provide growth from a global recovery. so we will seize the accelerated growth rate so the other names will take off so that is the stage of the economic recovery. so we can shift away from a

guggenheim upgraded walt disney from buy to neutral.ighting pixar and star wars films and products. among the losers, pioneer natural resources, harman, best buy and facebook down 2%. social media in general feeling the pain today. global equities writing, when it comes to twitter, the negatives outweigh the positives, especially fake twitter accounts and the proliferation of twitter spam. pandora, that's also one of the losers in the down 4.4%. google and apple trading in negative territory. the two heavy weights compete in the smartphone and tablet space. competition is about to heat up because both are said to be developing in-car entertainment. more detail may unfold next week at consumer electronic show. >> yes, that's upon us next week in las vegas. if apple and google are getting involved in the in car. what driving the car? >> what about singing along to made-up songs? did you do that? >> as a matter of fact, we did. >> did you do it this weekend? >> i can see the evans family doing holiday entertainment thing like christmas vac

upgraded the buy over at guggenheim.ising the price target talking about the company being posed to celebrate in 2014. coke getting some nice comments from barons over the weekend talking about rational pricing returning to the market. the payout on some of those names doing okay. it might be interesting to watch some discounters as the unemployment benefits end. that's money that tends to get spent relatively quickly, those benefits. there is some talk it might shave off 0.4 off gdp. there is little doubt that when you provide money to people with less money, they tend to spend it more quickly, a multiplier. the issue surrounding unemployment benefits at this point really boils down to the political. is this something you want to be spending money on? it boils down to the economics. the cost of $1.3 million. it is about $1.2 billion. in an environment where the fed is still printing $85 billion in the same month. one benefits the top of society. one benefits the bottom. >> let me take the other side. does two wrongs mak

guggenheim categorizes dollar general earnings good enough. that while the low-end consumer remains under pressure, dollar general does continue to gain significant share in the large consumable category, and that's enough for him to reiterate buy for the long term. struggling teen retailer, aeropostale posting another bleak quarter, missing expectations and guidance. transactions and traffic remain weak and it's revising guidance lower again. retail metrics tracks 120 retailers, and of that sample, 41 have issued negative preannouncements. only four positive. you have 12 left to report. carl? >> probably the toughest space to read right now, court, at least if you ask cramer. thank you so much. >> thank you. >>> even though consumer spending did disappoint on black friday, the next guest says there's a silver lining for the markets. mark colbert is senior columnist at market watch. mark, good to have you back. >> thank you. >> interesting blog the other day, a good post about the black friday indicators that we obsess about every thanksgiving

. >> from the louvre in paris, to new york guggenheim, they have a taste for edible art.ome such a trendy, cool thing these days. we want to push the limit with what we can do with foods. >> we love them to tell a story. >> the story of henry and kate lynn's latest project starts here in new york city. owner dillan lauren, an ad mirer of their work asked this emto create pieces for tear stores. >> henry and kate lynn came back with a fantastic story to merge our story in miami to a christmas ginger bread of a big exhibit. >> it was actually perfect. you have always loved creating ginger bread houses yourself. >> it came full around. i think he taken it with a whole new level that is not like anyone can do it. >> so, guys, you have to be inspired by this push. right? >> i mean, we have become food candy store gifters. >> you guys will teach me how to live the dream, right? >> it was my turn to get in on the candy fun. on this day, they were working on the ginger bread model of london's cape modern. my job, adding trees. in this case, cotton candy covered in cocoa powder. >