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amoral. thank you very much. you do say one thing. that the news yesterday that came out that our deficit is going to be up significantly than everyone thought at $1.5 trillion, that could sober up the market. that could sober things up. that s such a huge number. it was unexpected. $1.48 trillion. that s the deficit this year. that was a huge shock. at that point, when that news was announced, the stock market did pull back from 12,000. the danger is that you got a debt crisis. the people stop lending money to the federal government. interest rates rise. the economy falls and corporate profits come down. let me ask you this, how can corporate profits be at record highs with all those other things we just mentioned? the top 500 companies in the united states of america, half the fortune 500 companies, they make half of their profits overseas. not in the united states. they make those profits overseas. but a lot of people see that in the mutual funds they might have inve