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Holiday spending can’t come soon enough for the economy, markets

On today's Breakfast with Benjamin menu: Investors banking on holiday spending. Plus: Less-secure Social Security, when gold and platinum run in stride, Facebook is now bigger than IBM, and the tired saga on endless office meetings.

Calling all consumers. The markets now have their fingers crossed that consumers will step up once again and rescue the economy. Just spend, baby. Take that money you saved on cheaper gas and go buy something, please
Social Security is becoming a little less secure thanks to a floundering inflation

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