>> why should you buy stocks? couple of reasons, fed stimulus. qe-3, the fed prints money, throws it into the economy, the net result is that interest rates are so low there is nothing else to do with your money except buy a house for a low mortgage or put it in the stock market. number two, there is no alternative. connected to number one. what else are you going to do that is going to get you these kinds of returns. prices are at a fair value. a price to earnings ratio, how much is the price of the stock versus what are the earnings. they are lower today than they were five years ago when we hit those records in october of 2007. those are the reasons in favor of investing. >> you don't know when it is going end to, right? here are the cases against buying stocks right now. you got this issue with europe's recession. the u.s. is going up, the economy is going up, europe is going down. u.s. consumers are strapped. we don't know how much oxygen