and who would you rather have an important package send, ups or the united states postal service? if i pay for extra charges to get it delivered at a certain time, i would expect a refund if it doesn t get there on time. you don t think the u.s. postal service ever screws up and misses a delivery date? i didn t say they didn t. jonas, is this needless regulation? i feel like we re arguing over the paint peeling off our yacht. most countries would love to have our problem where you can t get the gifts delivered in time, we bought so much junk at the end of the year. look, i m all for government when there s no free market solution. in this particular case, since there is a ups and fed ex and the post office, this will resolve itself. if there was only one shipping company, you would definitely have to shake them down and put them in front of congress. this is not that case, i don t think, and i think the target thing will work itself out where visa will get on their case f
2013, gary b., you had the worst and the best in january. you said netflix would deliver and boy, did it. it s up, get this, a whopping 271%. stay and enjoy the ride or quit while you re ahead? i think if you have netflix, i would stay in it. i still love it. i still use it every day. but i would not buy any new. okay. thanks, guys. that was then, this is now. time for the best name to own in 2014. gary b., your prediction? i am betting on health care, regardless of what happens with obamacare. aetna i think will have a big year, up 40%. john? what do you like? offshore drillers, i think it s up 25% for the year, not counting the dividends. jonas? gold s going to lose even more of its luster in this next year and the highly risky etf will go up 50% just like it did this past year. risky but a way to play it.
i was completely wrong. okay. now for the worst call in 2013, gary b., last january you said it was blackberry s year to bloom but instead it left a big bruise, falling 58% since then. still a believer? no. i thought it would get bought out, do something different. it was a horrible pick. no. they probably won t even be around a year from now. sell it, please. now to the best calls. jonas, you are going to kick things off again. your best stock to buy in 2013 was i-robot and boy, were you right. if viewers listened, they cleaned up 70%. time to buy more or take the profit and run? take profit and run. okay. on to number two, john, you said to friend facebook in june. it s up 126% since then. you hitting like or unlike now? i still love facebook as a company but it s gotten a little too rich. take your profits. okay. now for the number one call in
it s the most fair and balanced way to make money on tv. our gang s best and worst calls of 2013 and how you can still profit from them right now in the scoreboard. we do the bad and good here, saving the best for last and starting with the best of the worst or something like that. jonas, you re up first. in september you said go long with vanguard extended treasury index. since then, it s down 4%, just a bump before the boom? yeah. especially the 2% or so dividend. that s my worst pick. i would say buy more of this. my clients own it. it s a great insurance policy against crash. on to number two. john, back in march you said strike gold with dld but it s been more like fool s gold since then, it s down 24%. time to dig up more or dump it? absolutely dump it.
registrations might only be, you take 20% of that numbe are the people going to be affected by the taxes. my point being i don t think a lot of people are going to be affected by obamacare taxes because i don t think obamacare is going to be successful at all. people aren t signing up. look, i got a chance from blue cross blue shield to just extend my policy until next year. i know my daughter isn t even signing up for health care. the irs has no way to go out and garnish wages and collect that money. so you re going to get to the point where we have all these taxes and fees and i agree with the other stuff that tracy said, those are always going to hurt, but the obamacare specifics, i don t think it s going to affect it because i think the whole thing is a big bomb. jonas, tracy made a great point about how many taxes we got hit with this year. now on top of that, the obamacare fees, what do you think? i would agree that 95% or more of the dollars of new taxes, whether hidden in t