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Host joining us from new york is John Whitehead, author of battlefield america. Good morning. Guest good morning. Host tell us about the genesis of the book. Constitutional lawyer handling cases for clients across the country. I have watched increased violence in the country. Have watched the surveillance state grow. I worked with former secret Service Agents. I had topsecret clearance and worked on topsecret programs. I have seen some things that really bother me on a constitutional level. I believe in the Fourth Amendment, which says clearly that before surveillance is done on american citizens, there needs to be probable cause. Now you have a massive Security Agency downloading 2 million emails daily. You have a post Office Recording all of our mail, 160 million pieces annually. , we may want to talk about a few cases where the fbi comes in, watches facebook. We have clients that have been arrested for facebook posts. What i am seeing is the government watching everything we are doi
Is Alan Knuckman of trading advantage, one of our traders who noted it would be a big year for stocks. Alan, what was behind the big move . It was just a great year. For those that didnt fight the market i made a contrarian call last december when everybody was really negative just from the fact that everybody was overloaded in one direction. The market obviously goes the other way a lot of times and it was a great big year for a lot of bull participants. You also made some calls on individual stocks, starting with facebook. This was a stock that was basically left for dead. People were not loving this stock but you liked it. I really liked it from a riskreward standpoint. Thats how you have to look at the market. You have to look at itif you buy it what are you risking it to and what is the upside potential of that play . So facebook had been cut in half so there was limited risk on the downside. It wasnt going to go out of business in my estimation. We saw a big resurgence and also s
Is Alan Knuckman of trading advantage, one of our traders who noted it would be a big year for stocks. Alan, what was behind the big move . It was just a great year. For those that didnt fight the market i made a contrarian call last december when everybody was really negative just from the fact that everybody was overloaded in one direction. The market obviously goes the other way a lot of times and it was a great big year for a lot of bull participants. You also made some calls on individual stocks, starting with facebook. This was a stock that was basically left for dead. People were not loving this stock but you liked it. I really liked it from a riskreward standpoint. Thats how you have to look at the market. You have to look at itif you buy it what are you risking it to and what is the upside potential of that play . So facebook had been cut in half so there was limited risk on the downside. It wasnt going to go out of business in my estimation. We saw a big resurgence and also s