The main reason American companies come here is to produce locally and find new markets.

Consumers have a strong reason to procrastinate, ... There will be more and more deals and bargains, and everybody knows it.

The world has entered a new industrial era, and China has figured out its strategy for the next 20 years or so. The U.S. is still grappling.

I don't foresee any reason for daily updates on Luis Gonzalez. At this point, he's our left fielder and obviously a terrific part of our organization's history and, presumably, a part of its future.

But we're a very deep team. After what I went through last year, I've come to realize there's no reason for me to be injured for any portion of this year beyond getting healthy here in the beginning.

There's no specific reason. It's just really overall. The payments to consultants, the drilling -- once we got into it, things ended up costing more than initially expected.