"Kevin Harris" is a professional skateboarder from Vancouver, British Columbia. He specializes in "freestyle skateboarding/freestyle" skateboarding. Harris is known for his fluid style, which incorporated complex manual variations with exceptional footwork. Stacy Peralta has called him "the most natural skater I knew." He was most active in competitions during the 1980s but is still involved with the skate scene. He owns and operates Canada's largest skateboard distribution center and continues to perform demonstrations.

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A weaker yen will put substantial downward pressure on inflation and will result in lower interest rates. A stronger dollar also means that U.S. assets are more attractive, once you buy them.

My reaction is dismay and surprise.

We thought we were living in a wonderful world. Our old adversaries were either tamed, in the case of Russia, or, in the case of China, becoming prosperous. ..Our view of the world as a benign place where capitalism was making almost everyone happy is not true.

The deterioration we did see was in energy prices; if you take out energy prices, things improved a bit. The bad news is that September import price data guarantees that we'll have a widening deficit in September.

These are tremendous numbers. There is nothing solid in the latest round of existing home sales data to show that we're slowing down.

The affected states and the surrounding ones apparently made extraordinary efforts to get claims filed.

Just starting a new life and not knowing where your family is or what's going on [is hard].

Today's data are consistent with a still-strong trend in growth, a healthy labor market, and potential inflationary pressures, ... enough to keep the Fed on its steady diet of 25 basis-point rate hikes.

This is the most pleasant place we've been in since we left home.