These are markets where overreaction follows overreaction. It's manic or it's depressive. It never gets even. You have the equivalent of a Dow that moves 4,000 or 5,000 points in a month.

Manic depressive is a disease.

Alright, so I'm a manic depressive. What do you want from me?

I’m a classic eccentric, living at the extremes of high mania and low mood. There’s no middle ground, only madness and sadness.

I joke that you give up low gas prices for Lent.

But they have been one of the unreported beneficiaries of this run-up, and while the major marketers probably won't do the nuclear option, there are a lot of independents out there really considering it,