Carol Stone Quotations

This would be an indication that activity is increasing at more than half the manufacturing firms in the survey, and another sign of growth.

I don't think it does anything to fact that we look for one more rate cut in October. There are too many other pieces of information that we still need to see, ... The price situation in some ways is a good thing, but the fact there are such widespread price declines is not good in the long run ? that's deflation, and can weigh in favor of even more easing.

It is outstanding to see such growth with not even any inflation,

I think investors will pay attention to this appearance by the Fed chairman. He will outline the Federal Reserve's own workings. This will be interesting because many speakers from the Federal Reserves have recently discussed the fact that we are going to have a recovery, but it's going to be slow,

If you're making fewer things, then you need fewer people to transport them, and fewer people to finance them, and fewer people to distribute them down the line. So it's important, and it's key to the current state of the economy.

The Fed should be very comfortable with this. They likely will shift the bias in their upcoming meeting to neutral.

He's had bronchitis all week long and had hoped it would get better, but it didn't, ... All tickets will be honored next week.

We're dedicated to supporting mainstream jazz, and we don't veer too far off from that. But we do spend a lot of time thinking about how to make the festival grow and how to have a lot of variety. We have the avant-garde, the old jazz legends, the older musicians and younger musicians and we're known for our high-energy jam session.

This week's collection of data will give the markets plenty to trade on,

The last time we had him here before he passed away, he said