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We don't feel that we're necessarily on the cusp of a recession.

Business is okay and pretty good in some places.

Because the feds kept rates down here at zero for so long,

it's distorting how people finance themselves.

What happens in the market is it only looks at the positives and it interprets everything positively

as long as it can and then it gives up the ghost and it flips 180.

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