you have an underlying problem that's not going to get solved with macropolicy, and until we start consistentlyn't think the president has a solution to this. like john said, looks like another recession here, and i don't see the president having solutions other than funding green energy. >> that's right. he believes the market repairs itself, and that, well, if he had his way, gerri, another huge stimulus package, but they will not go along with that because it's been a disaster in the last one that promised reduction in unemployment below 6%,ut, you know, we have a backlog o people joining the marketplace, and that's why you are seeing the numbers pick up because we can't catch up because people stay in their jobs. gerri: john, brad, thanks for coming on tonight. great job. it's been a fascinating day in the markets today. thank you so much. >> thank you. gerri: when we return, stocks may be at highs not seen in decades, but many find alternative investments like rare coins. we'll tell you about that next. the age of record low mortgage rates done? have we reached the bottom? more predictions

which is bad macropolicy. it would reduce employment when we don't want to.is a stupid, dumb, what can i say, way to cut near-term spending across the board, program by program, whether it's good or not. >> diane, let's predind we live in a world where we have the three doors that i showed you. if you could choose behind door number one, two, or three, which one makes the most sense to an economist? >> oh, come on, it's easy. door number three. i used to watch let's make a deal and i would take door number three on this one, knowing what's behind it. it does show my age as well. i agree with alice, alice is the queen of budgets here, she really is the one who is incredible on this. and i think it's really important to understand that this is a stupid way to cut budgets, this is dumb and we shouldn't be playing baseball with the ball being the u.s. economy and most of us living in that sphere, political baseball on this level. this is just again a repeated mistake of how dysfunctional our government is rather than functional. and going towards door number thre