This works because merchants have a high cost of customer acquisition, and we lower it, ... We bring them customers with their wallets open.

Damn inflation, full speed ahead,' Greenspan has said in both action and word. I think an investor should believe him and invest accordingly,

It is in the best interest of the company, its employees and investors, that we not proceed with the offering during this volatile time,

When you have kidney stones, you don't give much of a damn about the view,

if those [people] are holders of government bonds based upon a benign outlook for inflation, they had better cash some of them in, especially at today's 4.0% yield for 10-year Treasuries.

[Beyond that, some Treasury market participants worry that with recovery, inflation will pick up. In a note this week replete with (groan)] Star Wars ... current long bond yields do not reflect this risk.