"William Ashley Kirby" is an Australian swimmer who was competitive on an international level in the nineties and early 2000s. He specialized in freestyle swimming/freestyle and butterfly swimming/butterfly and won a gold medal at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney as part of the 4×200m freestyle relay team. He was an Australian Institute of Sport scholarship holder.

More Bill Kirby on Wikipedia.

The second quarter at this point looks like it's going to come in, perhaps, at 1.5 to 2 percent (real GDP growth).

We're seeing money flowing into the Treasury market. It's just a general flight to quality.

Until we see better price action or the market shows signs of life, I expect people to sit on the sidelines. We're just not there.

It's premature to start talking about the Fed being done. There's still too much (consumer) demand out there before they can call it quits.

The expectations a few weeks ago were again for the Fed to raise rates at this meeting. Now that's a little bit more in question.

The housing numbers were softer so we continue to grind higher here.

We are largely out of the woods with the June meeting.