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Lou Whiteman: Full disclosure. I was one of the people saying the sky is falling, so I'm going to be very defensive in my answer here. I'm [inaudible] biased. That said, a couple of things I want to point out. First of all, we live in a world where we're used to hot takes, instant reactions and stuff. Tariffs, like fed moves, and so many other things in the economy, they take time to work through the system. I think if you looked at since April, no, there wasn't that instant. The world is terrible now. But ...