"Richard Larry Green" is a former Major League Baseball player.

He was raised in Rapid City, S.D., where his ability as a baseball player was first noted.

Green, a right-handed player who also batted right, was a second baseman with the Kansas City Athletics from to and with the Oakland Athletics from to .

More Dick Green on Wikipedia.

There is no bounce even though the market has been down four straight days. Buying on the dip has fallen from fashion.

Over the past six months, the core PPI is up at about a 0.5 per cent annual rate. There is no indication that higher energy prices have led to broad inflationary pressures.

This news should be taken as a sign that growth will slow in 2006, but it should not be taken as a sign of a drastic change in economic trends.

The market may hold up well during the April earnings season. The reports will be solid.

A lot of companies reported stronger-than-expected results, and we are not talking here just about tech companies.

There is so much momentum in consumer spending and business investment that economic growth in the third and fourth quarters will exceed 3 1/2%. Inflation may pick up a bit, but core inflation rates start at such low rates that the overall impact won't be nearly as bad as feared.