we'll bring in zachary karavel in just a moment. while ben bernanke was barely, barely positive in his testimony, sort of eking out somehow, maybe recovery by the end of this year, better to look in 2010, 2% maybe, 2 1/2%, employment unemployment is not going to improve very much at all. okay. fine. that's bernanke's view. but when you see these good earnings from caterpillar, from merck and pfizer, for example, and from am, for example and even from starbucks, who would think people would be buying high priced coffee during a downturn, one thing mcintyre says, he uses the phrase 85%, i say 90% of the people are working in this country and what these better earnings or better than expected earnings, they're basically saying business is operating. we haven't stopped dead in our tracks in this economy. i want to link that to the bernanke testimony. if he's looking for liquidity exit strategy to stop rising future inflation, which is very important to investors in both stocks and bonds, you might want to consider the message of the sto