Part of their problems might be because of lax controls.

We are inclined to believe that the rise in U.S. small- capitalization stocks has gone beyond the point warranted by valuations, and have experienced a minor mania.

You have lower oil prices, you have a healthy employment situation and you have a consumer that is still willing to do a little bit of spending. That all adds up to a positive for the economy.

Even though retail sales may have spurred somewhat higher long-term rates, they're still not much different from where they were a few weeks ago.

He had a variety of other medical problems, so part of the problem is we've been sorting through those medical issues.

Right now unless something changes significantly, or we lose a levee, we don't expect any major problems,