Welcome to Motley Fool's Money. I'm Chris Elton. I'm joined by Motley Fool's Senior

Analyst Seth Jason, James Early, and Shen and Zermy. Guys, happy Friday. Happy Halloween!

Happy Halloween indeed. On today's show, the book-selling war is heating up. Warren Buffett

wins a beauty contest, and people in Iceland are now going to have to go a hell of a lot

farther to find a Big Mac. Can you say, Big Mac? Absolutely. It's a podcast. All that

plus, as always, we'll share three stock ideas, but we begin with the Big Mac grow. GDP grew

at an annual rate of 3.5% last quarter, the first positive quarterly growth in a year,

durable goods, and residential real estate helped fuel the growth. Shannon, you've seen the numbers.

What does it mean for investors? Well, you know, Chris, I like to compare the economic reports

to Weekend at Bernie's too. Was that film perhaps better than expected? Sure, was it still

lousy? No doubt. Jobless claims, horrific spending and income, both down. The Federal Reserve

pulling the plug on the Treasury Purchase Program, which is going to cause mortgage rates to

float up. That's all, you know, better than expected. Perhaps, still bad news. I have to disagree

with Shannon. And here's why. That's not the thing from Weekend at Bernie's, which is why this

is a great metaphor. It's because of the propping up a dead thing. That one on it. Sure, sure, sure.

Durable goods orders housing. Does this wait a minute? That's all government money flowing

into prop this up. The real test of the economy is going to be what happens when all of this

government large ass runs out. And we've got savings still up. We've got incomes down. We have

got spending down and consumer confidence down. Those things all go together on employment is going

to continue to rise for a while. It's going to be a while before anybody feels like the economy

has turned the corner. James, I have to totally agree. I mean, we may be out of the recession

technically speaking, but don't be on my leg and tell me it's raining. I mean, if I were a company

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