in the future. i would not underestimate what the last two months of craziness, the back and forth of the debt ceiling. i would not underestimate what that did to the month of july in terms of economic growth. we will see the result of that in the next months. it made everyone stop and not make long-term commitments and we were unable to move forward. andrea, let me ask you what we do next. what does washington do? does bernanke go back to the well? are we looking at qe3? what are we doing? maria would be the first to tell you, there are no bullets left. you ll hear the president make a speech. he s going to talk to veteran groups about entering the work force. he s got to speak about the