This is the pause that refreshes. This is not a doomsday scenario.

a pause in rate hikes is a more likely scenario rather than a rate cut.

It seems more and more the temporary pause in spending in March was just a pause.

We are a step closer to it now -- the doomsday scenario.

It was an OK year, not a boom, not a bust.

Now there's a shock. It's not just a penny this week and two pennies higher the week before. And the shock comes on top of the cumulative effect of all those pennies over all those weeks.