Scott Browne
Scott Browne
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It's a sign that things have bottomed out, but we're not seeing a sharp turnaround in capital spending just yet. So it's encouraging, but it doesn't suggest anything more than a relatively muted and fragile recovery.
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Prices for boxed beef paid by grocery stores continue in the range of $150 to $155 per hundredweight. Packers can afford to continue to pay good prices for cattle.
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Except for three or four kids, I'm positive of what they can do, everybody else is looking for a place on the district team.
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Strip away inventories and the government sector, and private-sector demand really wasn't that strong -- private-sector sales were up just 0.8 percent. We're still in a transition phase and not on a sustainable growth path yet.
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The markets are telling us the Fed is likely to start raising rates in early May and again at the end of June and probably more aggressively in the second half of the year. The Fed has been trying to calm those expectations. Rates ought to stay low for quite some time.
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If it is a matter of funding we could find funding to do that. It's just too important.
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The goal of all of this was to make it as difficult as possible to buy at warehouse clubs.
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The city has received numerous complaints over the past year, probably close to 100.
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And it's a very diverse economy in Florida, not just tourism.
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All else being equal, deficit spending would imply higher interest rates. But so many other factors - especially the sluggish economy - mean interest rates are going to be low.