We're going to fill up all of our buses, and hopefully, we'll bring them up and if we have to go back down there and pick up another group of people, we'll just keep going until they don't need our help anymore.

It's not a coincidence that commodities prices are increasing simultaneously with capacity utilization.

The outsized decline in starts in November is a bit confusing given the steady and elevated pace of permitting over the last several months.

Core prices are at a little higher pace than the Fed is comfortable with, but they're certainly not out of bounds, and the interest rate increases over the past year and a half have kept inflation relatively low.

The 2002 holiday season will likely be a moderate one, not blowing away modest expectations, but not disappointing them either.

Both new and existing home sale prices over the past few months have already been trending downward. Prices will continue to feel downward pressure as more and more units are posted for sale in the marketplace.