go to the big three money headlines, stock surge, overdrive and superspenders, joining me is morgan brennanlet's talk about stocks surged yesterday. how much did they surge? will it continue? >> hopefully. analysts expect we'll see history repeat itself. some double-digit percentage increases this year. month of january, a very strong start. the dow up 6% and that is the best monthly gain that we've seen since 1994. s & p 500 up 5%, best monthly gain since 1997. nasdaq 4%. fingers crossed, may not have a long winter. hopefully a good stock market too. >> what about car sales? >> this goes back to the stock market. people are feeling pretty bullish about buying new vehicles, this month we saw in january i should say, 14% increase in vehicle sales, about a million cars were sold. i think the really interesting story here is actually we're seeing a big increase in pickup truck demand, very closely tied to construction. as we see more homes get beuilt we'll see more puickup trucks sold. >> what about the super bowl? will it bring in big money? >> about $12 million. national retail federation ex

let's go in with steve forks, rick you thinker, elizabeth mcdonald, morgan brennan, rich carlguard and mike. steve, if you want to cut waste, is this the place to start? >> sure, david. green energy a great place to save green dollars. if green energy had any promise, entrepreneurs would be in on it. in terms of clean energy, we have it in our backyard with natural gas, remove obstacles to that, we'll have all the clean energy we want and need and export it. >> rick, you're against government waste. this was an incredibly wasteful program. is this the place we should start cutting? >> i actually came up with a very short quote that i think speaks to this point better than i could ever hope to. so i'm gog read it. federal investment in science and basic research has led to numerous innovations and commercial successes from laser lasers, from the internet to mri scanners. do you know who said that? mitt romney in his book "no apology, the case for american greatness." that is the point. look, government has always been involved in our greatest progress, they're always going to be involve

joining me is morgan brennan. smack dab in the middle of the storm.nts far from complete. but can you give us an estimate of how this might affect the economy? >> they are far from complete. we don't have to worry about the $60 billion price tag we saw associated with superstorm sandy, if previous storms from 2003 and 1996 are any indicator, we are probably looking at costs in the low billions for the storm. a lot of ifs there, the biggest issue will be short-term crimps on demand. big box retailers will feel the affect. the airlines with 5,000 flights canceled. a lot of questions to be answered. and events like fashion week will be impacted by this. a big one for new york city. >> wow, haven't thought about that. any type of good news for a boom for certain business? >> there are winner as far as the business is concerned. home remodeling companies like home depot and lowe's will see some upparticular in consumer activity like we saw with superstorm sandy. people can't get on the airlines. this is pretty interesting. wine sales and alcohol sales tend

joining me now forbes staff writer morgan brennan. we talked about the stock surge yesterday.of good news. how much and will it continue? >> we've seen a really good start to the year for stocks. on friday we saw the dow up. it actually vaulted over the 14,000 mark. first time we've seen that in about five years. it comes after a really strong january for all of the indexes. we actually saw both the dow and s & p 500 having the strongest starts that they've had to the year since the 1990s. so fingers crossed. this could keep going forward. >> what about car sales, looking good? >> car sales looking great as well. i think consumers are confident about the big ticket purchases. in january we saw a 14% increase versus january of 2012 as far as vehicle sales are concerned. about 1 million vehicles sold. analysts expect about 15 million vehicle sales this year. i think the big story this year will be pickup truck sales. lots of increased demand there. that's very strongly tied to construction. as we see more housing we're going to see more pickup truck sales. >> that's good. what a