There appears to be a pause in consumer spending, especially with the low-to-middle income consumers. The slowing sales also counterbalance positive economic data that show rising income and confidence levels and oil prices coming down....

When fixed-income investors conclude that the central bank isn’t going to raise rates any time soon, … there tends to be a convergence of rates.

They either failed to report their income or failed to report their entire income.

Generally, when people join the military they choose (to establish residency in) states with no state income taxes,

[Income trusts] are very different creatures, … and very much understudied and underappreciated in terms of their governance risks.

Income, that is the thing. I wish an income that will keep flowing into my purse whether I sit on the wall or travel to far lands.

If lifetime income is the primary need and potential inflation protection is secondary, there’s Nationwide L-Inc. If principal protection is initially more important with the opportunity to draw lifetime income later, there’s CPPLI.

The fact that we can lower living costs at a time when output and income are recovering should be considered fantastic news.

Any feeling of security is only in your head. Anything could happen at any time. As long as you are strictly someone’s employee at one company, you’re a liability on the balance sheet. I say...

A U.S. taxpayer is subject to income tax on their worldwide income, … These schemes do not give you any relief from that legally.

The special Katrina legislation allows you to deduct up to 100 percent of your adjusted gross income.

Basically, [guitarist] Chris [White] and I had a good writing income, and we hadn’t been gigging much recently. There wasn’t any bad feeling,

The actual growth in a person’s life is the rise in his wisdom and not the raise in his pay or income.

There is still a great deal of untouched equity in homes. Employment, as well as real income, are expected to continue to increase. While 2005 may ultimately be the peak in the cycle, it appears...

We’re going to look awfully stupid if we give income tax relief to people who do not pay income taxes, … Late Edition.

It looks like [the shortfall] was purely in the fixed-income area,

You will see regional negative effects in local economies, … And you will see income loss among local farmers.

Do not really like rich people, as they make us poor people feel dopey and inadequate. Not that we are poor. I would say we are middle. We are very, very lucky. I know that....

We designed Nationwide L-Inc with maximization of allowable income in mind.

Despite a voluminous and often fervent literature on “income distribution,” the cold fact is that most income is not distributed: It is earned.

Above a certain level of income, the relative value of material consumption vis-a-vis leisure time is diminished, so earning a higher income at the cost of working longer hours may reduce the quality of your...

What would BBVA do with Lloyds? Will it improve the cost/income ratio, which is already very low? There are lots of unanswered questions there.

Canada’s progressive tax system imposes an ever increasing burden on people as they earn more income. Clearly our tax system is sending the wrong message when it penalizes people for being successful.

Income is tilting toward the top end of the scale.

I would expect radio to remain so for some time to come given current income and literacy levels.

In fixed-income sales and trading, we did not repeat third quarter’s record but $1.6 billion in revenues. But it was a record fourth-quarter total, about 70% above our average fourth-quarter results over the past two...

Consumers are said to have more income (including the Bush tax cut), but are spending less. That may be the strongest indication that recovery from the current situation may be longer off than Wall Street...

The Japanese population is aging and has created a market niche with great potential for Hawaii. They have the income levels and the time to travel.

In northeast Nebraska, the combination of several years of relatively favorable weather patterns and the positive income effect of a more diverse crop and livestock economy has, no doubt, fueled a spirited bidding environment for...

They didn’t want ‘those people’ coming into Hancock Park, low-income people. The Hancock Park people clearly were making their opposition known to Henry Waxman.

This will result in an expansion of coverage across all income levels.

The tax is a one-off. As long as interest income and fee income are good, the operating side is doing fine.

The notion that income inequality has gotten worse in the United States in the last 20 years ? I believe that. The idea that it is worse in Texas than in other places ? I...

What concerns me is the unevenness . You have peaks and valleys in median income throughout the state.

More consumers have more discretionary income. This is an occasion that brings out the inner child in us all. And Canadian consumers have shown a real affection for Halloween.

Gasoline prices are one of the most regressive costs on lower-income people.

Ten billion dollars less of deficit means $10 billion less of disposable income … and a loss of at least 100,000 jobs.

I know if it shocked me, it shocks low- and moderate-income people, especially people who have to travel an hour and a half back and forth to work. There are certain low-income people that clearly...

A large income will not give you happiness, but a blissful heart will.

The bottom line is really the bottom line [on income statements] in the stock market and earnings just don’t look good. The jobs data wasn’t terrible but the economy has run into a wall. Basically,...

There is nothing wrong with wanting pay for work, or seeking to maximize one’s income, as long as one does not use means that are destructive.

As the economy is shifting, you need to have legitimate and creative sources of extra income. There are opportunities available that people have been using for years now.

As for your salary, how much you make is really up to you.” I love a business model where the employee pays the employer.

The man and husband of the household is responsible for the way your family’s income is managed.

Personnel and their capacity for work on their exact jobs is the basic key to income and success.

I have an income nearly sufficient for my wants (no one’s income is ever quite sufficient, you know).

The vast majority of Americans, at all coordinates of the economic spectrum, consider themselves middle class; this is a deeply ingrained, distinctly American cognitive dissonance.

It definitely affects your lifestyle if you don?t have a six-figure income.

It turned out that capitalism alone could make people not only rich and happy but also poor, hungry, miserable, and powerless.

It makes a lot of sense particularly if you’re younger and not at your peak earning years. A high-income individual might want to think twice about enrolling in a Roth 401(k).