The fund industry lobby their own members to improve the clarity of prospectuses,

We’re not in crisis mode now.

If you talk to the Fed staff in private and ask them who would Greenspan like to replace him, the answer would be Don Kohn,

Here’s an appointment where Bush really can’t make a mistake,

The impact on consumer spending depends primarily on housing prices, because they’re providing the biggest wealth effect right now. As long as they keep rising, people will be able to keep tapping into equity gains...

I see nothing but strength in each and every one of these candidates. This is an enormously talented group of people.

We believe the growth spurt will be less robust than the consensus and that a softening housing market will hold back (growth) throughout the coming year.

We’re at moderately full employment, but not full employment. Anything like 4 or 3.9 percent would have to be viewed as full employment.

I can’t imagine Bush would want to spoil things in the economy by picking someone that is not competent,

These figures should relieve some of the fears of Fed officials who have been recently sounding the alarm on inflation prospects.

Whether it’s 3.7 percent or 3.9 percent, it’s booming, … I don’t think that the Asian effect is hitting us much and the domestic side is good.

He’s the same age, same clarity of expression, same demeanor, very steady, interesting background with the Bush administration and involved with the best successes in their minds – the tax cuts,

Consumers are taking advantage of import bargains to increase their spending.

It was the Greenspan-Kohn monetary policy, and the dash is perfectly legitimate,

The compromise view is 25-basis-point increases. No one’s arguing, even hinting, at a pause.

Those companies are all very tax savvy and they are doing what everybody else would do — they are bringing the money at a lower cost and using it to fund all sorts of things,...

These figures tell you that the Fed has to keep doing more. If it hadn’t been for the energy spike, we’d be talking about real boom-like conditions.

All American companies that provide high tech products and also capital equipment for the Asian economic miracle are going to be hurt because there’s an adjustment process that has to be gone through in Asia....

The tremendous rise in all these costs has been steep enough and has gone on long enough that it’s putting an awful lot of pressure on business costs.

There’s no doubt about it there will be a lot of lawsuits (in a down market), … The industry is well aware that there will be a rash of class-action lawsuits.

It may be a year and a half or so before we see enough inflation for the Fed to start digging in.

He has issued a bit of a caution flag now that he’s on the lookout for wage pressures.

Companies use language that’s worked in the past, so prospectuses become bigger and bigger mountains of words,

They could have waited, but they’re trying to give us a signal that they’re more than just vigilant — that they’re actively seeking to ease monetary policy.