ron baron, the chairman of baron capital joins us right now on set on opportunities.t with us before. >> no. a pretty place this is. >> you have never flinched. >> i get upset, but i never flinch. >> you have never flirgenched. see i flinch at the drop of a hat. you never second guessed it. >> when becky was going like that. >> yeah. >> ron, thank you so much for joining us and for being here this morning. before you arrived we started talking about some of the things you've told us in the past. one of those is you expect that the stock market is going to double over ten years. this is something you say has been a historic trip. >> when i started baron capital in 1982 it doubles every ten years. but the stock market basically doubles every ten years. you go back to 1960 and the dow was then 600. now 17,500. and the economy was then 520 on the gdp. >> we did the math on that earlier today. we realize that means gains of about 7% a year. >> 6.8% for the economy. 6.2% for the stock market. but when you add in dividends, it gets you there. >> so what we were running throu

bill simon ceo of walmart u.s., gary parr and ron baron. starting 6:00 a.m. eastern time. >> they said come back here for sure? >> they said come back here for sure. >> this is it. >> we are going to go downtown and send it off to "squawk on the street." have a great weekend, everybody. >>> good morning and welcome to "squawk on the street." i'm david faber along with jim cramer. we are live from the new york stock exchange. carl has the day off. we are going to have more on the situation involving that french terror suspects or a number of them in a moment. taking a look at futures after the december employment report showed better than expected job creation last month. you can see it's not doing too much for the equity markets at this point. it has been a stronger week for the markets, much stronger than last week. why? a lot of different reasons. crude oil does figure very prominently into the movements of our market. as you can see, wti down again. not a great deal but down again this morning. as for the ten-year note yield hovering around amazingly enoug

bill simon ceo of walmart u.s., gary parr and ron baron. starting 6:00 a.m. back here for sure? >> they said come back here for sure. >> this is it. >> we are going to go downtown and send it off to "squawk on the street." have a great weekend, everybody. >>> good morning and welcome to "squawk on the street." i'm david faber along with jim cramer. we are live from the new york stock exchange. carl has the day off. we are going to have more on the situation involving that french terror suspects or a number of them in a moment. taking a look at futures after the december employment report showed better than expected job creation last month. you can see it's not doing too much for the equity markets at this point. it has been a stronger week for the markets, much stronger than last week.