It's Thursday, June 20th.

Welcome to the market forward.

I'm still joining me in studio today

from Motley Pool Asset Manager at Bill Mann, Bill Barker,

and Tim Hanson.

We've just cleaned out the first floor, basically.. I mean Tony's on the other side of the glass

We're all here everybody's up next time because it is it is annual shareholder day for Motley Fool asset management, so we'll be heading to that event after we tape this.

But let's dispense with the business of market foolery. We're going to talk Ben Bernanke, emerging markets, a business icon who was just kicked to the curb,

but let's start with the Fed Chief. Wednesday afternoon Ben Bernanke at a press conference talked about how the economy is

expanding strongly enough for the Federal Reserve to begin slowing the pace of

bond buying later this year and you would think and I'll just start with you bill man you

would think that maybe that would be viewed as good news and then you know

cue the freak out which has continued into Thursday morning.

The market dropped a percent or more just in late trading on Wednesday

and is down this morning.

I just kind of don't know what people expect that he was going to do.

At some point, they were going to stop buying bonds in the same volumes that they've been buying.

For basically the reason that the economy is expanding.

This is all good news.

I mean basically they have put a put under various parts of the market for years now, which I guess is okay for you know for for for people

who are trying to play that but if you're an investor what you want is an economy that's

healthy and that put doesn't suggest that the

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