Another thing about our calendar is that it has 1 1/2?by?1 1/2 (inch) squares that people like. They can write in that. |
Anyone who is in now won't want to get out, so it's better to have an automatic process that also makes it more representative over time as countries grow. Momentum is definitely building for change. |
Energy security is dominating the thinking of the G-8 governments and is clearly higher on the radar than other macroeconomic issue. |
Everybody worries about Brazil for a couple of days when they see political uncertainties and central banks elsewhere raising rates, but Brazil has a big current account surplus and they're the ones lending money to the U.S.. Brazil remains a fantastically high-yielding play. |
G-7 members have decided to give China a collective push. It's becoming more and more apparent to everyone other than the Chinese themselves that the sheer intensity of Chinese growth, their reserves and so on, makes it extremely baffling they don't allow their currency to appreciate more. |
I submit to you, write death.... The murderer is sitting right there. |
I think we started too fast. It was too easy, getting that goal right away, and Woodbury outplayed us for the rest of that first period. But we came around in the second. |
I think we're different because we've been here a long time. Some of these schools popping up in major suburbs, someday they might bite into us, but I don't think so. Our parents have strong roots; they came through here, and they want their kids to come here. |
I've been here for 24 years and we were giving out calendars when I started here. |
If ever there was a good time for the U.S. to slow and the global economy to deal with the imbalances, it's now. It's not been this good for a decade. |
If you are so powerful in your communication, you may find you cannot get financial conditions to a level of tightness needed to bring inflation down. |
If you're not good enough, that's the way it is. But we did it the right way. |
It's always dangerous to be involved in countries with large current account deficits. This should be a lesson to people who do carry trades without looking at economic fundamentals. |
No matter how good you are on offense, you still have to have pitching. Right now, we're looking for pitchers. |
Normally we don't play well early. We weather the storm in the first period and then we get better in the second and third. |