Its going to be a very big week for politics and money. Today, another impeachment hearing is being gavelled to order right now. Theres talk of an Impeachment Vote by the end of the week. Also today, the Inspector Generals report on what the fbi and doj were up to around the 2016 election. Wednesday, the Federal Reserve holds forth on Interest Rates. After that jobs report, very few expect rate cuts. Thursday, britains general election. Boris johnson, thats britains donald trump, expected to beat socialist jeremy corbyn. And by sunday, we should find out if more tariffs are going to be imposed on china. Any of those stories could move the market. Then theres peloton. The young woman in the now famous ad has found new life advertising gin. Personally, i think that exercise bike will be one of the holidays biggest sellers. We shall see. Get this. Monday, december 9th. Three weeks to the end of the decade . Varney company is about to begin. Stuart the young lady in that now famous peloton ad has made good with a new gin commercial. Kristina partsinevelos at the new york stock exchange. The controversy over the peloton ad has done her some good, it seems. Reporter well, yeah. Lets find the positive in this, it helps the actress. Who knows how much she got paid by Ryan Reynolds and his team to be in the aviation gin commercial. Thats what you are referring to. Theres been so Much Negative backlash about this commercial and when you really think about it, its a man giving his wife an exercise bike, a 2,000 exercise bike for christmas, but the internet perceived it as here, honey, youre fat, heres an exercise bike for christmas, or the holidays. Thats why you are seeing this aviation gin commercial, Ryan Reynolds hired the exact same actress in the commercial, they actually say exercise bike not included, hash tag aviation gin. They call that commercial you are seeing on the screen right now the gift that doesnt give back because the holiday peloton ad that enraged everybody is called the gift that gives back. Its not only them that are mocking, you have saturday night live mocking the peloton ad which caused the husband in the peloton commercial to speak out, he spoke out with the daily mail. Hes canadian, hes an Elementary School teacher. He said he was asked if he had a peloton bike. He said of course, i cant afford one. The least they could do is send me one, especially given all the negative feedback he has been receiving. But we look at the share price of this, a lot of companies have gone through this, nike with colin ckaepernick, yet peloton stock has been down for the last several business days. They lost over 1 billion in valuation. The street has been weighing in as well. But the one of the Research Notes i was reading came from oppenheimer. They said the rally you are seeing over the last little while, the stock has nothing to support it so why did it even rally like that. If anything, its just coming off of those highs from black friday. Overall, though, it seems like some people are negative. You have Raymond James analyst saying he doesnt think the ad will affect sales. But its more the feedback from everybody online. 73 of online media posts right now are negative regarding this peloton ad. Will we move on or will we buy a peloton . Stuart oh, i think it will be one of the Holiday Seasons best sellers. Reporter exactly. We keep talking about it. It seems to anger people and they question like i dont care, i do care stuart it doesnt anger that many people. It just puts the ad on full display. People watch it and its a pretty good product. I think its a big winner this Holiday Season. Im prepared to accept that i might be wrong but i dont think i am. Reporter i will come back with you in january with the numbers and let you know. Stuart i hope they tell us. Thanks very much. We will see more of you later on today. Got it. Thanks very much. It is monday. First trading day after the stellar jobs report and the big stock rally. Jack hough, barrons guy, with us now. I just feel that it wants to go up some more. You with me on this . Im going to let your viewers in on a secret of how to be a great stock market forecaster here in the u. S. In the long term, you always guess up because thats what the market does. In the short term, you also always guess up because it doesnt always work out, but theres no reliable way to predict the short term direction of the stock market and it goes up more than it goes down. About twothirds of the time you will look like a genius. Im guessing up. Next year we will return to Earnings Growth. This year we will have a 25 gain on what looks like maybe a 1 gain for earnings, which looks like maybe the markets overextended but i just think investors look ahead and see a return to Earnings Growth, stock prices dont look crazy relative to other asset classes. I see room for more gain. Stuart i have been out and about over the weekend and i see a very active consumer, buying, drinking, eating in restaurants, out and about. I mean, this is prosperity. You can feel it. Are they buying more pelotons or gin . I saw your earlier segment. Whats going to be the better seller . Stuart gin is a good product. I agree. The consumer is very strong right here. I poked around, new york city isnt quite where you take the temperature of the rest of the country but retail sales right now, any stores out there, any store chains where you see their stock struggling, its not because of the consumer. The consumer right now is quite strong and confident. Stuart i dont see impeachment as a negative. I dont see the Inspector Generals report as a negative. I dont see the Federal Reserves meeting as a negative unless they surprise us all. The only possible dark cloud is the tariffs on china products come sunday. The only possible negative. The way that would become a negative is if you had a total breakdown in talks that ended with some sort of heinous name calling where people thought now we will see a serious escalation. As long as you see the status quo or anything, if people punt and discussions are going to continue, i think thats okay as a backdrop for the market. Stuart got to give you kudos, because you have consistently said throughout the year this market wants to go up and has gone up. You have been right. Always guess up. You look like a genius twothirds of the time. Ashley you are a genius. Stuart three weeks to the end of the decade, we have a rally on our hands. I think it will keep going. Thanks very much indeed. Now, ive got a stunner buried in obscure government statistics. In september, for the first time ever, the u. S. Exported more oil and Petroleum Products than we imported. Thats energy independence. Ashley that is. I did a deep dive. I really dug deep on this one. Since 1973, when they began keeping records, we have not seen the u. S. Exported 89,000 barrels more than it took in, but theres a caveat to all of this. The u. S. Is still not a negative exporter of crude. It still imports more than it exports. The numbers we are talking about is crude Petroleum Products such as jet fuel, motor gasoline and all of that. You throw that in and the u. S. Is a net exporter. For instance, in 2009, the average crude production in this country was 5. 3 Million Barrels per day. It now stands at 12. 1 Million Barrels per day. A remarkable uptick, thanks to fracking and all the other things. You know, listen, the biggest import we take 60 of our crude comes into the United States from mexico and canada. Stuart just think what a difference that makes to geopolitics. Ashley huge. Stuart if we dont have to buy oil from people who hate us, that makes a significant difference. A real difference. Ashley absolutely. Susan imagine if you get to supply other countries as well, because half of the growth in oil and gas up until 2025 will come from the u. S. All growth of energy products. Stuart that gives you influence. Susan it absolutely does. Stuart if they want it gives you power. I thought that was a stunner. Ashley yeah, it is. Stuart now this story for you. Beijing ordering state offices to replace foreign computer hardware and software. That apparently, this is a Financial Times report, that could affect microsoft, microsoft is down just, what, nearly a buck this morning in the early going. Canopy growth named the constellation guys ceo its the marijuana company. Constellation is the booze company. Canopy up 4 on that news this morning. Goldman sachs downgraded macys to a sell. They had been at neutral. Now they say sell that thing. The stock is down another 2 . Jack, that stock was at 70 at some point. Now its within the past five years. Now its 15 bucks. If you are tempted to bottom fish, do not. We have a story about it this past week. There is still some pretty deep challenges there. Stuart got it. Look at the futures market. We will open this market in 20 minutes time. We will be down but very marginal loss. Dow is down maybe 20 or 30, nasdaq down maybe 13. We have news on the elon musk cybertruck for you. We will ask the oak ridge boys, Country Music band, yeah, would they ever write a song about this pickup truck, the electric pickup truck. Good question to ask. They are on the show in just moments, believe me, right here. New study says four out of five of us feel the same or better about our finances than we did a year ago. 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Stuart how about the rest of you gentlemen . Would any of you here pick up an electric pickup truck . I dont know. It looks pretty cool to me. Looks like spacey but im not sure, says it will go 500 miles without charging. Thats kind of interesting. Stuart would you ever write a song about it . You know, you still have to charge it. Where does the power come to charge it . Still comes from fossil fuel. Stuart thats true. So its defeating the whole purpose, as far as im concerned. Stuart i hear the depth of your voice right there. Im not joking now, but is it true that if you play Country Music backwards, you get your wife back, you get your dog back and you get your car back . Do you . Its been rumored around nashville for years that thats the case but i dont think that it is, stuart. Stuart whatever you say. I dont think that it is. Stuart didnt you used to drive a delorean . Yes, sir. Thats probably why this truck appeals to me just a little bit. But i had a delorean and one time, the gull doors came down, i was in my garage. I started it up and started to come out and said i forgot something. I went to get out and i couldnt. Im a little claustrophobic. There was a window this big on each side, if you remember. I couldnt get out of the thing. It scared me to death. Man, i was panicking. It finally opened up. I sold it the next day. Stuart i know how to identify you because youve got the beard. How many years have you been doing this . How many years have i been doing stuart Country Music. The band. Oak ridge boys. I joined in 1965. When i first joined. Stuart how many christmas albums have you put out since then . This is our eighth album. Our eighth christmas album and our 30th year of Christmas Tours. Stuart will you ever stop . I dont think so. God will tell us when to stop, stuart. We dont know how, we are out there right now. Our down home Christmas Tour is playing 31 cities. We have 11 shows left before we go home. And weve got this new down home christmas cd thats really a pretty cool piece of work, with great producer dave cobb in nashville producing it. Great new songs written by some of nashvilles hitmaking songwriters, and its a very unique project. We are excited about it. Stuart its a cd . An actual cd . Well, it comes in an actual cd but you can also actually download it. Stuart i thought so. I thought those things were gone a long time ago. They are still at Cracker Barrel. Hows that stock doing, stuart . Stuart i have not checked the stock but Cracker Barrels most active day is thanksgiving day. Did you know that . We had them on the show on thanksgiving. I did know that. In fact, a couple years ago, all of our family was gone on thanksgiving and we ate at Cracker Barrel and it was good. It was really good. Stuart oak ridge boys. We will download this christmas album, we will maybe play some of it before christmas. Gentlemen, thanks for coming on the show. Always an honor. 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I guess this is more of a message towards google, whose employees last year rallied and demonstrated the fact that google is helping the pentagon with this drone surveillance program. Google of course ended that project in march of this year, but google should learn a few things from bezos and amazon, despite losing that 10 billion contract, which they say was biased, by the way, they are still going to work with the department of defense. Stuart i want to bring in jeremy owens, market watcher on this, Technology Editor<