joe hider, and brianppenheimer . jeff, an awful lot of analysts come through here and their price targets for the s&p, around 1650 to 1700 by the end of the year. for you, it's 1700 by the end of the quarter. is that right? >> yeah, i think the underinvested, underperforming portfolio managers, due to performance risk, bonus risk, and ultimately job risk, are going to carry the market higher into the end of the quarter. and then after that, i think you are vulnerable to some kind of pullback. but between now and then, i think any pullback will be shallow and short. >> even with the kind of activity that we had this week, where there's so much uncertainty we had exactly when the fed will begin tapering. >> i think that's a bunch of noise, bill. i think with the softening economic statistics we've seen over the past few weeks that ben bernanke is not going to taper on quantitative easing anytime soon. >> david, do you agree with that? this felt at certain points during the week, like this could be the week. are we goin