Colorado's economy is clearly doing better.

The economy is still doing extremely well. We're declining, but declining from a high level.

The economy is firing on all cylinders. Construction is very strong. Home price appreciation is very strong. The commercial real estate sector is very strong. Utah ? right now, its performance is about as good as at any time, ever.

Per capita measures of income are always a little bit distorted when you talk about places like Utah or Idaho, mainly because we have substantially more children per adult. We have in Utah 50 percent more children per adult than the national average, so any per capita or per-person measure of income, we'll always be on the low side.

Obviously, the risk (for a bust) is there. But if we had any major weakness, it'd probably be external ? a major act of terrorism, for example, or bird flu.

We've got strong in-migration, strong job creation, and the jobs are being created in as many high-income areas as in low-income areas.