Cable cannot dispute the fact that they've incessantly raised rates. Cable rates continue to rise because they lack meaningful competition.

A lot of people feel that the realm of poetry and the realm of the lyric is personal feeling and should rise above politics, which, in fact, good poetry has never done.

Vacancy rates should remain low in 2006 and lease rates will continue to rise dramatically. Landlords should enjoy a prosperous 2006 as tenants will fight to obtain space in an ever-tightening market.

These mergers will be bad for competition and bad for the customers.

These numbers give you pause. The ISM and the fact that jobless claims continue to rise suggest there continues to be job loss.

It seems almost inevitable that there is some fall off from broadcast to cable, but whether it's anything meaningful is a big question, ... Advertisers going into the season will probably estimate it pretty close to ABC's last year numbers.