The retail sales numbers are obviously important because it's our first peek at what demand is going to look like in the first quarter of this year.

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This is a train that's really moving down the track and a couple of logs are not going to stop it.

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There's a more distinctive possibility that the Fed will move Tuesday that wasn't there before. It's a possibility that they will move next week but I think they'll definitely move in November and probably another 50 basis points beyond that.

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I don't see any way the Fed can avoid raising rates. The Fed simply has to make it less desirable for consumers to spend.

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The auto numbers were looking like they might, on the receipts side, have been a bit weak for January. But what we're looking at is a bounce from a fairly weak 'ex-autos' number in December.

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I'm not going to sell out the people of Stony Point. I'm going to encourage the rest of the Town Board to vote against the agreement as it stands now because I believe it's unfair.

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There's probably a lot more to any personnel matter than is ever known publicly and that's the way it should be, to protect the privacy of the individual.

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This is temporary. Remember that it's not that long ago we were up at 6 percent. You have got an Asia crisis and it is going to create this kind of reaction, but I don't think it is sustainable.

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There will have to be much more significant restraint on spending growth than we've seen over the last four or five years.

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