I think that gives companies some pause -- that the folks that might purchase their shares think this is an important issue of corporate management and governance.

We didn't try hard enough. It gives you pause to think what do we really have here? We should've been frothing at the mouth, like pit bulls. I so much want to have a team that really, really, really wants to play every day, every night.

It's almost the embarrassment factor that companies don't want to be seen as laggards.

Through the mining of public records and the purchase of credit reporting data, private-sector companies are amassing troves of personal information on citizens for the government, ... Serious questions exist involving citizen access to profiles, their accuracy and the potential for misuse of personal information.

Through the mining of public records and the purchase of credit reporting data, private-sector companies are amassing troves of personal information on citizens for the government. Serious questions exist involving citizen access to profiles, their accuracy and the potential for misuse of personal information.

The November minutes were taken as a sign of an impending pause and I don't think the Fed wants to give that message. If the economy is still growing fast, they may have to raise rates above 5 percent.