works with all the biggest fortune 500 companies told me recently that people those ceos are starting to think about coming back in from the sidelines, doing deals, maybe not deals that are outside of their core, maybe not acquisitions that are out of left field, but something that s in their core business starting to think about coming back in from the sidelines. that s good because we ve heard, for the past couple years, that there are $2 trillion, $3 trillion sitting on the sidelines. i don t know where this money is. i just want a small percentage of it. if they re not using it, i will. it s funny. one of my colleagues had a comment yesterday where he said uncertainty is dead. uncertainty is basically cash hoarding. it s kind of an excuse. part of the reason the market reacted the way it did was just at the sight of the headline, which was status quo wins. so dysfunctional. i think the market hadn t fully taken account of some of the dynamics we re talking about now where t