joining us jack hough, "barron's" senior editor.ed, jack. >> this was towards the end of last month. we can't predict the short-term performance of these.com shares but the long-term performance it is almost a mathematical issue right now. if you want to talk about one of them, talk about facebook or twitter, we can disagree. while i might say it is vest expensive. you might say, hold on the he growth potential more than makes up for it. it can make up for one of them. it can't happen with facebook, twitter, google and many other popular names of the problem the overall pie of online advertising dollars, and that is how the companies make their name. they want to today's clicks into tomorrow's ad dollars. we know the pie is going to look like because global ad demand grows at a fairly predictable pace. the portion growing on line is growing quickly but predictable rate and the growth is slowing. so we've got a pretty clear trajectory trade. we know what the dollars will look like down the road. if when you look at combined stock val

here our very own charlie gasparino, "barron's" senior editor jack hough and financial advisor jeremy hill. thank you all three for joining us. is it a coincidence that the market started to geoff nervous and see them grow down and when everybody started talking about high frequency trading. anyone? >> i don't think it is at all. if you look what happened to nasdaq volume last couple weeks it is up 18%. i think it has nothing to do with high frequency trading. i think what is happening the u.s. equity markets are trying to parallel park between tight expectations of economic growth and also in the face of fed tapering and probably not very robust earnings season going forward. melissa: jack what do you think. >> dot-coms and biotech brokers got slammed. dot-com and biotechs are way no too expensive. investors are playing musical chairs and they know it and brokers because of high frequency trading. >> i don't, let's be honest here. the small investor has been out of this market for a long time. this is mainly a market of traders and high frequency traders. i think it is unrelated to w

now, fox business's own charlie gasparino and elizabeth macdonald and "barron's" senior editor jack houghwhat do you think about this? sort of leading man, headline ceo that was there, jack welch. >> jack's successor. melissa: are the big headline guys, is that day over? >> well, let's point out his 20-year alleged tenure he is supposed to have was always kind of squishy. they were always dancing around whether he would be there for 20 years. they were never, they never said specifically he will definitely be there 20 years. i spoke to jamie dimon about this sort of issue, whether ceos get burnt out faster, given everything else that is going on? melissa: yeah. >> i think this is latest line. this is symptom going on for a long time. average lifespan after ceo has been cut dramatically for a lot of reasons, inincluding the fact if you run a big coopany, you have government on your back 24 hours a day. >> to charlie's point, i saw one study average term is five or seven years. melissa: is turnover good. >> ge is now at 25. same when jack welch stepped down in 2001. it was hovering around t

here so discuss it is with the executive vice president and joined by jack hough and fox news contributoronica crowley. this is big jump in pay. what is behind this decision. >> thank you. you know, it has been a gradual raise for us. so we started with 12 and went to 15. and now for earth day we're going to 17. there is really two different things we're looking at. the humanitarian aspect and the business aspect. on the business side of it there is transactional costs when you have employer turnover and retention. cheryl: people are staying around longer if you pay them more? >> absolutely. my started our business in 1967. he came to this country from greece. he didn't speak the english language. lived in homeless shelters and studied chemistry and started our country. he worked the factory lines. he knows each and every employee -- cheryl: it is great. monica, this is the exception not the rule. overall many ceos come on fox business saying hey i will have to let people go in the minimum wage federally goes higher. >> kelly, your company and family story is a great american success stor