does this filter into our economics, bob sinche?hink it yet, but one would expect the dollar to be stronger than it is right now based on fundamentals, so you kind of wonder what is driving the dollar a lot weaker. it seems like the foreign exchange markets read the fed this week a lot differently than maybe the interest rate markets today, so the rates markets are signaling that maybe there is some more tightening ahead. the fx markets are not. the best thing the japanese can hope for right now is that the fed does signal and deliver some rate hikes and hold it above 100. tom: do they rescue the rest of washington, including congress, the senate, and the white house? robert: no. i do not think they do. i think it is the same thing that we see around the world, that the central banks really are done. i think they are telling people that pretty clearly. as a result, we will have to find other sources of growth. quickly, the surprise yesterday of the atlanta fed on the 2% gdp -- nobody expected the short-term 1.8% gdp. it goes to what