i spoke this past week with stephanie calvin, she's kind of emerged as the spokeswoman for this way ofly she tells me things like deficits, we're hooking at potentially a $3.7 trillion deficit this year. that would be more than double the largest yearly deficit, and i think we maybe closer to $5 trillion by the time we're done with all this spending because we've got a dire economic emergency, people need help. i don't think it's going to stop after that. she says you don't need to be worried about deficits, the only constraint on spending is inflation, we have plenty the of room to spend. part of my column this week forget about the debate, you need to look at the implications as an investor. i don't think we're going to have inflation right now, i think we will have stock-flation, we're replacing an awful lot of that spending with government spending right now. that might continue to support the stock market. jack: well, and maybe why gold is going so high. two quick investment ideas, you first, ben. >> yeah. take a look at abbott labs. the stock went sideways the last three months.