And when we turn 18, the slate is wiped clean. |
Certainly the average Canadian will find a fair amount in the budget to cheer about. |
I don't see any way the Fed can avoid raising rates. The Fed simply has to make it less desirable for consumers to spend. |
I'm not going to sell out the people of Stony Point. I'm going to encourage the rest of the Town Board to vote against the agreement as it stands now because I believe it's unfair. |
It came as an incredible surprise. |
It's really our responsibility to do this audit. It's prudent to do this. |
The auto numbers were looking like they might, on the receipts side, have been a bit weak for January. But what we're looking at is a bounce from a fairly weak 'ex-autos' number in December. |
The retail sales numbers are obviously important because it's our first peek at what demand is going to look like in the first quarter of this year. |
There will have to be much more significant restraint on spending growth than we've seen over the last four or five years. |
There's a more distinctive possibility that the Fed will move Tuesday that wasn't there before. It's a possibility that they will move next week but I think they'll definitely move in November and probably another 50 basis points beyond that. |
There's probably a lot more to any personnel matter than is ever known publicly and that's the way it should be, to protect the privacy of the individual. |
This is a train that's really moving down the track and a couple of logs are not going to stop it. |
This is temporary. Remember that it's not that long ago we were up at 6 percent. You have got an Asia crisis and it is going to create this kind of reaction, but I don't think it is sustainable. |