[Friday's] data clearly indicate that U.S. manufacturing may not be quite at a bottom. The weakness is led by computers and electronic equipment, but other categories are weak also.

If you stop to be kind, you must swerve often from your path.

Nature's music is never over; her silences are pauses, not conclusions.

Manufacturing is expanding, but not as broadly as in November. There was weakness in new orders and employment.

We've had many other instances in history where (governments) had to re-jig expenditures to make sure that they stayed on course. That may be the scenario they're facing this spring,

The divine egoism that is genius.