jim iuorio, i think it's particularly important to ignore washington, all right?e any big budget shutdown. maybe a day or two max. there isn't going to be a debt default of america's interest expenses. all those melodramas are not going to happen. and maybe most importantly, there aren't going to be any additional tax hikes. so i say put washington aside and just focus on the fundamentals of the economy and the fed. >> up to this point, i don't think the markets paid that much heed to washington. today, when i saw a $20 rise in the gold market, i thought maybe that was the first time the markets were actually taking it seriously too. and longer term, i definitely think i'm a bull. but i think there could be another 40 handles lower in the s&p based on a couple of things. the reason we rallied prior to the last week of trading was what the taper was pushed back and we got the queen of the doves, stolen from my friend larry kudlow. we got that she is going to be the next fed. if we start to get hotter data than, that then all of the sudden we'll be talking about the