I think there's gong to be hurricane effect for next couple of readings. It's not just Katrina and Rita. Hurricane Wilma was causing evacuations, business closings in October.

The market is readying itself for a 50-basis-point rate increase. Shorter-term issues are reflecting that, while longer-dated bonds are gaining on expectations that next week's refunding announcement will be positive.

What we take away as significant is a slightly bigger drag on first-quarter GDP as a result of the revision to March and starting off the second quarter with lackluster trade, which would exert a higher drag on GDP.

The next hurricane, I'll greet it.

It's been a tough start and I think we regressed the last couple of weeks, ... But we also played two great teams the last two weeks and that may have had something to do with it. Flowery Branch is playing perhaps the best of anyone right now so it doesn't get any easier. But we always go into every game thinking we can win and we will against Flowery Branch.

The troubling fact is that even if we take out the effect of the hurricane, we're still left with a lackluster increase in personal income for the month of August.