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There's increasing recognition that the Fed is not quite done. It means that the economy is going to get weaker, and that may put pressure on earnings in the second half.


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ERIC BUTTERWORTH The one thing that a fish can never find is water; and the one thing that man can never find is God.
ERIC BUTTERWORTH God can only do for you what He can do through you.
ERIC BUTTERWORTH Fundamentalists believe Jesus was God becoming man. I believe that Jesus was man becoming God.
ERIC BUTTERWORTH You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.
ERIC HOFFER Fear comes from uncertainty. When we are absolutely certain, whether of our worth or worthlessness, ...
ERIC HOFFER The birth of the new constitutes a crisis, and its mastery calls for a crude and simple cast of mind...
ERIC HOFFER To the old, the new is usually bad news.
ERIC HOFFER The fear of becoming a 'has-been' keeps some people from becoming anything.
ERIC HOFFER There is sublime thieving in all giving. Someone gives us all he has and we are his.
ERIC HOFFER