Weaker than expected Jobs Report for June had stocks in retreat after the end of quarter run up of the last week, and a false euphoria over a European solution.
“Christianity is not stoicism. The Cross does not sanctify us by destroying human feeling. Detachment is not insensibility. Too many ascetics fail to become great saints precisely because their rules and ascetic practices have merely deadened their humanity instead of setting it free to develop richly, in all its capacities, under the influence of grace.” Thomas Merton, 1958