looking is in some of these master limited partnerships. nrz throws up 11%. very, very g how about you, jonathan, staying with the base metals? i ve gotten my clock cleaned betting against bonds and higher interest rates but i still think that s the play. dfvs goes up with five-year yields. i think all the money printing from the fed will finally start catching up with interest rates. i have to agree with that one. thank you guys very much. that s it for the cost of freedom block. thank you for joining us. but some final thoughts about the middle east. no more american blood should be spilled over the cockroaches who hate us as much after we helped them as they did before. you want solutions, we need to drill our own massive available offshoreacres for oil, frac our massive federal lands for nat gas and approve the darn keystone pipeline so that we never have to bow to the demands of middle eastern oil sheikhs again. we need to assist israel, mideast problem solved.
this last year, so i m looking at those kind of stocks. energy mlps have been hot for r a long time. how about you, john? they ve been super hot. they were cold, but now, are coming back. shipping stocks, a lot of them are showing great strength, so i like and on nabulus maritime. it s a greek shipping company. as costs rise, this will follow it along. are you concerned about the rising cost of energy what s going on in iraq? i m short bonds, so i m anticipating highest interest rates. from base metals across the board. see you again next week. that s it for the cost of freedom block. before we go, the obama administration released five deadly terrorists back into the wild. will they kill again? only time will tell. let s hope the administration did its homework. have we made other trades with taliban? with the taliban, i don t
the ukraine situation pushed up commodity prices like gold, like wheat and like nickel. i own nini. this is an exchange-traded fund that tracks the price of nickel. i own it at capitalist.com. i think it goes highers fr erer here. i love those commodity picks, those that have been hot. wayne, you ve been hot as well. that s it for the cost of freedom block. thanks for joining us. before we go, last week we schooled jon stewart for bashing fox for exposing waste, fraud and abuse in entitlement programs. stewart shot back thursday night. here s the thing. the funny man agrees america has a problem. john, we have a kumbaya moment here. we should be fighting all waste and abuse in addition to food stamp fraud, right? let s take it a step further like the nearly $20 billion in medicaid, waste and fraud. $60 billion in medicare. $7 billion in social security. bottom line, waste, fraud and abuse is rampant in a bloated government set on handing out other people s money. that s my food for
chart. recovering economy, this is going to do very well. john, yours quick? i m building a position in base metals like nickel. nini is an exchange traded note tied to nickel price is. i like it at these levels. very good. that s it for the cost of freedom block. thanks for joining us. before we go, last week senator rand paul, a good friend of this program announced he was suing president obama over his nsa policies that prompted representative peter king to say this. we listen to rand paul and follow his policies, americans could die. maybe it wouldn t bother him. i don t know. we tried to get representative king on cashin in to talk about the outrageous remarks. all week he dodged us and made excuses. we think mr. king owes senator rand paul an apology. representative king, we extend an open invite to you to join us at your convenience. in the meantime, i m giving you a homework assignment.
has been talking about protecting ourselves against rising interest rates. i think that s true. you have to stay away from the bond and affixed income and go back to equities. i think it s a good year for that. i want to spread my risk though so i m taking iwo, the russell 2000 etf for small cap stocks. very quickly for 2014, higher or lower than where we stand at the end p of the year right now? i think gearing to be higher than we are right now, but we re going to go through a period here in the spring that s a little iffy. jon, your pick for the week? well, i like aluminum. along with coffee and cotton and platinum, to me aluminum is a commodity that actually really makes sense. there s an exchange traded note that tracks the spot aluminum. foil could pop. love these commodity calls, jon. quickly, higher or lower? for stocks i d say liar. for bonds i d say much lower. that s it for the cost of freedom block. thanks for joining us. before we go, duck dynasty