Thank you for that kind introduction. I thought I would share my sense of the economy today and where it may be headed. These are my thoughts only and not those of anyone else on the Federal Open Market Committee or in the Federal Reserve System. I hope you will give me some grace as we have been operating with limited government data for almost seven weeks. I like analogies, so I’ve been describing operating with limited data as trying to bring a boat to shore in the pitch black and having the lighthouse go dark. You can assume you’re on the same course for a short while. You can try to navigate by lantern. But you ... (full story)