u.s. economy? and what we're talking about there is really fundamentals and the u.s. they're pretty strong. we have to put it into perspective. we had 200,000 job gains over the last three months. that's good. we have strong housing. that's good. the optimists in this market would say, look, the u.s. is the best of the bad lot. the rest of the world there are concerns. and the u.s. is holding steady. at least when it comes to the fundamentals. as we know, sometimes oftentimes the markets are really disconnected from the fundamentals. if people will be asking what do companies do in this environment? ceos get nervous and start to question their business models and question whether or not their sales will drop overseas because we have a global potential global economic slow down on our hands. with the many companies that have major sales overseas, you know, could we see job cuts? could we see a slow down in the u.s. economy?