joining us now to discuss is michael farr, president of farr, miller and washington. good to see you today. >> nice to be with you. >> when we talk about geopolitical concerns, what happens with north korea or syria, what's the concern for investments in the united states? >> when we have a destabilized world, business kind of stops. and we're worried about our trade relationship with china. we're worried about whether the euro is going to fall apart. we're worried about these military conflicts around the world with north korea or syria or whatever. certainly that can stop business in places around the world. we're a globally intertwined economic fabric, of course, in 2017. so we do have to worry about what else is going on and the precious that can come to bear on our markets. >> what's going to happen, daddy? am i going to make money this year or not? >> and i think, yes, you will, or not. i think that's the right answer. look, we've seen this top call for a long time, it's just a top that won't happen. where we are right now, the trend remains intact, the market r

joining us is michael farr, cnbc contributor.t did you make of those comments from treasury secretary steve mnuchin yesterday? >> you know, i think that we're seeing from the government that things may take longer than we thought. we're still getting strong and positive messages out of the government and treasury. but perhaps taxes will take longer. this is a market relying on that tax happening or not happening. though we've been good at ignoring all sorts of bad news, embracing good news and believing that everything will be fine. it's a market still running on optimism and running well. >> so, i know you've been saying that for a while now. what changes the tide of that? >> i was talking about a friend, joe caso yesterday, doing this about as long as i have, we were saying that markets are just fine until they're not. when you think that we've been through a bombing of syria, that we've dropped the mother of all bombs in afghanistan, that we have the vice president warning and troops over in korea and off of north korea, what