I don't think [the confidence measures] tell you that much about what the consumer is going to do. I always tell people to look at what consumers do and not what they say.

[There was] a remarkable, if misplaced, self-confidence on Ray's part that he could always concoct a story after his arrest that would set him free, ... a rather remarkable story that placed him at the scene but only as an innocent victim of circumstance.

There's confidence in both guys. Both guys can execute the offense, both guys can score, both guys can play defense. So it really doesn't matter to us.

Goods prices are deflating and continue to deflate, but services prices are by no means deflating, ... Overall, prices continue to rise, so I'm not concerned about deflation.

Part of the program may include relief for states ... so the drag may not be as large from the state side, ... You definitely will see some drag from the states, offsetting the stimulus from the federal side, but it won't be enough to totally offset the federal side.

No two periods are ever identical, and we don't expect cars to sprout fins, but we do think that there's a good chance that many of the favorable economic trends of the 1950s will re-emerge in the years immediately ahead.