It's no surprise that Colorado lags the nation in income growth because we were hit hard by the high-tech meltdown from 2001 to 2003.

We're going to war again, another cycle. It's like a high-tech version of the Roman Empire all over again. We won't break these cycles until we start going inside and questioning our own selves - we keep looking outside for answers, when really the solution and the answers are inside us all.

It's really no surprise to see a sell-off. It's really hard to figure out where the market's head is at.

That's no disrespect to Colorado or anything,

With some other technologies in the high-tech world, you can actually very accurately simulate it on the computer and know what you're building before you build it. In RF, you can't do that. You're not relying on the software to do the work for you. It's really the engineer's brainpower.

An increase of 5.1 percent is clearly ahead of the inflation rate of 3.4 percent, so we are seeing real growth in our purchasing power.