are not going to negotiate period. clearly democrats got republicans cornered and not likely to give them any sort of mercy by offering a compromise. bill: i think the republicans, rosen, have offered some compromises, but then the reply back from the president and, of course, pelosi and reid take their cue from him, is well we are not going to renegotiate obama care. it s the law of the land. the supreme court said it was good and we are going to go with it we don t care if it works or not. obviously it isn t working. we will prove that in the next segment. you know, again, i m going to ask you, it s an opinion question. are the democrats saying no we are not going to give in on anything and that s it? is that what it is about on the one hand, bill, there are people who will be tempted to look at this situation and say here is a president, here is the democratic party in the senate who are more eager to negotiate with hasan rouhani than with john boehner. from the democrats point o
are not going to negotiate period. clearly democrats got republicans cornered and not likely to give them any sort of mercy by offering a compromise. bill: i think the republicans, rosen, have offered some compromises, but then the reply back from the president and, of course, pelosi and reid take their cue from him, is well we are not going to renegotiate obama care. it s the law of the land. the supreme court said it was good and we are going to go with it we don t care if it works or not. obviously it isn t working. we will prove that in the next segment. you know, again, i m going to ask you, it s an opinion question. are the democrats saying no we are not going to give in on anything and that s it? is that what it is about on the one hand, bill, there are people who will be tempted to look at this situation and say here is a president, here is the democratic party in the senate who are more eager to negotiate with hasan rouhani than with john boehner. from the democrats point o
probably months at this point while the fed figures out how to get the stimulus out. ultimately, it will shake out to a normalized level. the underlying economy is good so i d freak out a little bit, but ultimately just wait. we want to have the economy stand on its own two feet, but that s the thing here. 401(k) investors, they re not active traders, and the people trading here are probably booking profits from this huge run-up we ve had. yeah. what it is is a very professional market right now, and you ve got traders who love volatility, cashing in on this. we had a pretty tepid market for a while, wasn t a lot of daily motion, and then the fed said we re going to pull out stimulus and you ve got big swings up and down. we could pop back up today, so this is a professional trader s market, not for the amateur, mom-and-pop investor. best thing is to wait it out at this point. if you re risk averse and can t stomach all the swings, maybe take a little money off the table at this po
they would have been if this had been, you know, cleared up and then people could write the check and know they got the tax write-off from it that s true where you could show damages. so, in your opinion though, and this is an opinion question. what was driving this? was it just individual zealots in the irs who didn t like the tea party or was this coming down from high and do you have any evidence to back that up? well, you know, it s hard for us to tell whether it s coming down from high or not because the inspector general report that came out yesterday doesn t tell when it started or who started it or why it started. they redact that at the very beginning of their report. so, i don t know why i can speculate because tea party and patriot groups and groups that wanted to educate on the constitution were targeted. but liberal groups were not. no look, it s huge. and we ll get to the bottom of it, ms. martin. thank you very much for appearing this evening. thank you. bill: plen
they would have been if this had been, you know, cleared up and then people could write the check and know they got the tax write-off from it that s true where you could show damages. so, in your opinion though, and this is an opinion question. what was driving this? was it just individual zealots in the irs who didn t like the tea party or was this coming down from high and do you have any evidence to back that up? well, you know, it s hard for us to tell whether it s coming down from high or not because the inspector general report that came out yesterday doesn t tell when it started or who started it or why it started. they redact that at the very beginning of their report. so, i don t know why i can speculate because tea party and patriot groups and groups that wanted to educate on the constitution were targeted. but liberal groups were not. no look, it s huge. and we ll get to the bottom of it, ms. martin. thank you very much for appearing this evening. thank you. bill: plen