The act of putting pen to paper encourages pause for thought, this in turn makes us think more deeply about life, which helps us regain our equilibrium.

I just stood there swaying back and forth thinking I was going to die. It was pretty rough.

There's something to be said for any boy growing up among lots of other boys who like to play basketball and football, while all I wanted to do was put on musicals. Mentally, I was always in my own world.

The market is looking for numbers that will add to the information set regarding what the Fed might do at their Oct. 5 meeting. The odds have been greatly reduced by what happened Tuesday and with the wording of June 29-30 (Federal Open Market Committee meeting) minutes, but we need more information to see if that's true.

This is a report that suggests that economic growth is slowing very sharply. It's a report that indicates growth will probably only be moderate in the fourth quarter this year and in the first half of next year.

The bond sell-off . . . can be attributed to the stock markets rise, but the market was negatively reacting to the strong Philadelphia Fed index. It shows more evidence that the manufacturing sector has bottomed out.