The first half of the decade has not been good for Pittsburgh and Southwestern Pennsylvania in the sense of economic growth. But for this year, I believe we have turned the corner.

This is a very weak number and well below what everyone expected. It's not the kind of report the Fed likes to see, but I think they'll recognize that the economy is already rebounding and raise the federal funds target rate to 4.5 percent.

It's unjust and doesn't make good economic sense,

The game wasn't an overly good game for the first half. It takes a while to get into it, not having played for three weeks. Once we got going, we were better.

We?re from Pennsylvania. I?m not even sure they know where they?re at.

With demand still weak, there's room to cut rates in the first half of next year. That'll keep yields around 4 percent for 10-year gilts.