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So we're sitting right now at 25% year-over-year earnings growth for the first quarter,

which is bananas, okay?

So the fundamentals are not showing any signs of cracking right now.

For the economy, especially for the labor market, things like small-cap employment,

if that starts to crack, and what do you watch

for that? You watch things like small business optimism. There are questions in a lot of those

surveys about how many people they plan to hire if they plan to lay people off. So watching

some of those metrics is important. The other thing is if you start to hear announcements

from what I would consider old economy sectors,

some big companies, Bellwether companies

in those old economy sectors of layoffs,

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