Let's get a little bit more diagnostic statements on the state of the current economy. Well, I think it's very appropriate for the Fed to be awake at the wheel right now. I think there's an awful lot of noise in the information we're getting right now though because of the indecision 2000 and the presidential race. There's no question that took a toll on consumer confidence. We've seen these effects before.
Consumers often bounce out of it fairly quickly.
We also now are in the busiest days of the Christmas season are actually the last days before Christmas and the days immediately following Christmas, so the fat lady has far from sung as far as this Christmas season as gone. And we know consumers have shifted their spending away from what is counted in retail sales towards services. And that has a real lag on it. Well, I don't yet believe so. That's just not where we were formerly.