More - Gina Martin Quotes

Consumers have access to cash. They took out a record $804 billion in mortgage equity withdrawals in the third quarter.

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We're going to fill up all of our buses, and hopefully, we'll bring them up and if we have to go back down there and pick up another group of people, we'll just keep going until they don't need our help anymore.

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Core prices are at a little higher pace than the Fed is comfortable with, but they're certainly not out of bounds, and the interest rate increases over the past year and a half have kept inflation relatively low.

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If anything, this confirms the Fed's bias towards inflation rather than worrying about a slow down in growth. The Fed seems to have no worries about growth, as least as far as manufacturing is measured by ISM.

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 Growth

Both new and existing home sale prices over the past few months have already been trending downward. Prices will continue to feel downward pressure as more and more units are posted for sale in the marketplace.

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 Home

energy and oil prices are on the minds of the non-manufacturing businesses.

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 Energy

I think it is a critical number. It's one of the first readings we get on consumer confidence post-Katrina.

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 Confidence

Sometimes, we're wondering what we can do to help and unfortunately, these people are going through a difficult time. It's a small part we can play. At least it's something we can do.

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We're basically guessing how the BLS adjusts for Katrina, which is an even bigger stretch than we normally have to do.

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The 2002 holiday season will likely be a moderate one, not blowing away modest expectations, but not disappointing them either.

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