[Tauzero]

ping

[GraniteStateConservative]

It's all just superficial. Stocks have dropped because of perceptions and confidence falls because of the stock market drop which causes the stock market to fall. There's no real reason for confidence to be so low. In January 2002 we were just leaving 2.7% GDP growth-- which isn't all that great. It's very possible that the 3rd quarter's GDP growth will be very close to that. Confidence should be about what it was in January.