People are concerned what it means for the future of the paper.

We want to let the community know we're fighting for our newspaper, and we hope they will, too.

I don't think any of us saw it coming.

If Fed Funds were expected to rise in the future, the curve would be positive with intermediate and long bonds requiring higher yields as a cushion against accelerating short rates. If the Fed were expected to lower rates, a flatter, even inverted curve might result. It's not that this academic theory has been dislodged in recent years but it may have been asked to take a seat next to the increasingly important variable of global financial flows. These flows, no doubt, rely critically on the willingness of foreign investors to hold U.S. assets in the face of potential currency and asset price depreciation.

It sort of looks like a place with the background filled in by buildings. And a lot of people say that it has a Dr. Seuss look to them. To me, they are just whimsical looking with colorful human archetypes that you can sort of read into them.

So far it's only a handful of people, maybe half a dozen, who we're dealing with now and they're exclusively from the Cape region,