Miscellaneous

We don't always connect ourselves with our history.

We don't always connect ourselves with our history.

There's a real trickle down effect when there isn't much snow. Resorts, restaurants, ski shops - we're all impacted.

There's a real trickle down effect when there isn't much snow. Resorts, restaurants, ski shops - we're all impacted.

If they come to the library to play educational games and they think libraries are a fun place to be, read more

If they come to the library to play educational games and they think libraries are a fun place to be, they will come back again and again their whole life. We've generated a lifelong reader and a lifelong library user.

The contractors that they're trying to hire to do these repairs are the same people that have been displaced or read more

The contractors that they're trying to hire to do these repairs are the same people that have been displaced or are working on everybody else's stuff.

I'm more interested in whether the losses we'll see on Friday are a permanent feature on the landscape or just read more

I'm more interested in whether the losses we'll see on Friday are a permanent feature on the landscape or just the result of people pushed out of work due to Katrina and Rita. I think the market will look at it and shrug it off and look at what's going to happen in October.

I look at that as really good news for the market; you want something right in the sweet spot. We're read more

I look at that as really good news for the market; you want something right in the sweet spot. We're just in a nice, smooth acceleration, and now people are starting to think that's likely to be sustained.

For five years I worked at the [Commerce Department] and did econometric modeling, and you could never get these numbers read more

For five years I worked at the [Commerce Department] and did econometric modeling, and you could never get these numbers to load into consumption numbers. They're not leading indicators or coincident indicators. They don't tell you a lot.

That makes it definitely worth watching how bonds are trading. When there are problems at a company, the institutional bond read more

That makes it definitely worth watching how bonds are trading. When there are problems at a company, the institutional bond investors tend to figure it out before the rest of the retail market and dump their bonds.

I think this will be more of a company-led expansion instead of one led by consumers.

I think this will be more of a company-led expansion instead of one led by consumers.

There's not a big inflation problem. Under those circumstances, you get a benign yield-curve inversion.

There's not a big inflation problem. Under those circumstances, you get a benign yield-curve inversion.