“Alone, we can do so little; together, we can do so much.” -Helen Keller In the past few Mid-Year Letters and Year-End Letters, we discussed then-current national and global events and the extent to which those events affected the GDS Investments portfolio. We considered the strength and resilience of the American economy and the ability of our economy to withstand political and cultural turmoil unlike anything most of us have seen in our lifetimes. To say that turmoil remain