The mood is still good and we might have another couple of good weeks before the seasonal weakness in September,

The weak are the most treacherous of us all. They come to the strong and drain them. They are bottomless. They are insatiable. They are always parched and always bitter. They are everyone's concern and like vampires they suck our life's blood.

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While it's a bit of a surprise, the slightly downbeat news on confidence can be explained by the ongoing weakness in employment, and perhaps consumers are a little concerned about the backup in mortgage rates. But while they're becoming less confident, they're still buying -- the latest sales numbers still look good.

I can find no room in my cosmos for a deity save as a waste product of human weakness, the excrement of the imagination

(Traders) usually bid the market up in the first week of September and then start clearing the decks for the September quarterly end.