. >>> today i'm one on one with joseph gallagher. he's with lpl financial. of course you know the economy is a big subject. right now we're in a presidential year so i'm going to talk to joe about where we are, what should we be concerned about and how does the future look. where are we right now in terms of inflation? >> first thanks for having me on. inflation has been -- it will continue through 2014. what we're doing as a country is we're buying our long-term debt with short-term money. that's keeping rates low to help us out with the housing crisis predominantly but also it helps the economy in general. but when you do that, you get these artificial things that don't let the market reach parity. it has an effect where the pendulum swings back more dramatically because of this pent up kind of effect. we've seen prices of coffee go up, gas. you're obviously seeing inflation in the most real terms go up but we're artificially holding back the true effects on the entire economy right now. when you do that, you sort of put -- [indiscernible] >> when you get