Consumers are more maxed out on credit than they were at this time last year.

By thwarting technology, you're thwarting future job growth.

It will tell us how the housing market will perform over the next year or so. The spring tells it all.

It doesn't fix it; it mitigates it a little. It does not change the underlying high cost structure of Long Island ... but it's a very necessary Band-Aid at least in the short-term.

The industries in New York City are oriented to growth, whereas our industry mix ... is not oriented to the most rapidly growing industries.

In the long run, it will be beneficial. But it may take several years for this to come to fruition. It's not going to happen tomorrow.

We need entities like Brookhaven. We need it to grow, we need it to spin off new technologies and we need it to come up with new solutions to the energy problems, too.

It depends on consumer psychology, whether the wealth effect trumps or home price trends trump.