If you're going to bet on economists and strategists on one hand, and the markets on the other, take the markets every time.

When the markets struggled for a technical bounce in the morning, that was investors sending a message that we're either heading toward an economic recession or toward a profits recession.

It's not his physical gait that is transforming, ... It's the having one hand. It's being one-handed. I find that much more constricting than walking with a limp. Actually walking with a limp is not that troubling. But to be one-handed, to drink a cup of tea and put two sugars in, and open a door and answer a telephone -- it all becomes incredibly time-consuming. Every scene, for me, is about, where am I going to park the cane? When I pick up this, where am I going to put the cane? That's a physical constraint. But, you know, you adapt incredibly quickly. Human beings do. We're very quick.

Markets work well with goods that economists call private goods.

More and more strategists are of the opinion that the Fed may be completely through.

I bet if it was a fraternity house, they'd have it, ... I'm upset. If it wasn't just blacks playing, it would be there.