think. you know, the gdp comes out for the third quarter, 2.9%. i don't think it was a 2.9% quarter. they've got way better figures than i do. >> you think it was lower than that? >> yeah. >> what signs are you looking at? >> i look at everything. we have 70 different businesses. >> railroads to fruit of the loom underwear. >> i love numbers so i get it on a realtime basis. >> what do you see? >> the federal reserve are getting a thousand times as many figures and they've got all kinds of people working on it. if i had to bet, if they were revising the third quarter, it would get revised downward. the economy is not growing at 2.9%. >> markets move on your words. you're seeing a softer economy. >> i'm buying stocks. >> what is it? you've said before, periodically financial markets will be divorced from reality. it sounds to me like -- >> financial markets don't have to go with business. >> right. but are they divorced from reality right now?