yes. i think that we re clearly in a strong recovery now. if you look at the inflection and data over the last couple months, it s really the best couple of months i ve seen since the great recession began. consumer confidence is soaring. auto sales jumped up to 16.4 mill dwron above the 16 million which is like the 98.6 for the economy. everything is looking good. it s that rare moment where we seem to be right on the verge of a recovery. wow. could something mess with it? oh, yeah, sure. i m very excited as well. but it s not going to be a straight line. there are two big hurdle we have to get over in the next few months. the next one is the battles here in washington over the budget. we can t go down the same path we went down in october and shut the government down. that would derail things. which, by the way, they seem united in their ability to not close it. the other hurdle is the federal reserve. so the federal reserve is going to begin pulling back on its bond buying