If you do both of those at the same time in an economy that is already contracting, you do run a serious risk of pushing the economy over the edge.

Oil is at new highs and then you get a number like this at a time when the market was predisposed to concerns about softness in the economy. We still expect a weaker dollar. The dollar bear story is coming into focus.

By refusing to implement the women’s contracting program and repeatedly failing to meet required contracting goals, this administration is undermining virtually every existing opportunity for women business owners to break into the the good ol’ boy network of federal contracting

Their costs for hiring and contracting services is clearly rising faster than their revenue. They are going to have to get a handle on that because the industry is just not growing fast enough to support that.

The boom in the U.S. economy at the end of 1990s increased flow by 35 percent, but that peak was rather short-lived.

The cheerleaders talk about the economy growing, but the economy grew at 7 percent from 1966 to 1982, while stocks went nowhere because valuations were too optimistic. And they're optimistic now, by historic measurements.