This is a very anemic recovery. It has a lot of problems with it, and we don't have dirt-cheap valuations. I firmly believe the bear market is over, but this is not going to be a roaring bull market, and I think we're going to see a lot of interruptions and halting and starting before we get a consistently better market.

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