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The story is one of continuing boom conditions in mining and very strong nonresidential construction activity. The Reserve Bank is still very much on hold, watching both the inflation outlook and domestic demand.

The simple fact that the trade sector has ceased to be a significant drag on growth will be enough to convince the Bank of Canada to move on September 7 (and beyond).

The technologies which seem to be receiving interest from the Bank include those with damaging social and environmental impacts, such as nuclear, large dams and so-called 'clean coal'. It is widely understood that these technologies will not help to bring people out of poverty, which is the World Bank's mission.

The system was academically and financially bankrupt before the storm. We think there were a lot of good teachers and administrators working in the system, but there was just a lot of mismanagement.

The survey seems to be a little bit worse than people had anticipated. It does show that the manufacturing sector is struggling under the weight of the strong pound. It shows a squeeze on profit margins. It will raise a little bit of doubt about whether the Bank of England will have the courage to raise interest rates next week.

Substantial financial institutions on the ground (is important). I would never recommend to a client a small bank that has no affiliation with a larger institution.

So that when people get on airplanes after showing their ID, we know who they really are, and when they open up bank accounts, we will know who they really are also.

Phil Hellmuth

One day I looked up and I had $20,000 in the bank and my student loans were paid off and I was 21, ... Then I started going to Vegas a lot.

Seemingly small decisions help enforce the bigger picture and the bank should know better.

The sale is probably the last one by a major bank, making it positive for the banking stocks overall.

It would be difficult to sell it with their most recent period, which is a horrible result. Goldman Sachs is probably saying that this would be a tough story to tell on the road when you have a declining business, when the other investment banks are posting record numbers.

It would seem the bank now realizes that we are falling into a bit of a deep hole.

It was all grassroots, people's piggy banks and everything else.

The SEC is launching more investigations into more big companies than ever before, ... The list of targets includes plenty of Fortune 500 players, including Bankers Trust, Cendant, Waste Management and W. R. Grace.

I share your commitment to conducting a thorough investigation of what, until recently, was the largest bankruptcy filing in our nation's history, ... In light of recent news reports and testimony at this week's Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations hearing on the role of financial institutions in the collapse of Enron Corporation, I believe these two individuals could provide the committee with information critical to our investigation.

Eliot Spitzer

The word 'fraud' will be in some of the documents that are the settlement documents, ... I believe very deeply that at its root what was going on with the analysts and the investment bankers was probably the largest fraud ever committed upon the investing public.

This is the first signal that the central bank is trying to tighten monetary policy.

E. P. Thompson

This will not be a bank that a consumer ever sees. Its only customer is Wal-Mart.

Jimmy Swaggart

Evolution is a bankrupt speculative philosophy, not a scientific fact.

We did not get the financial resources we expected. The grants did not come through, nor did the bank loan. Consequently we had to put everything on hold.

There is a serious disconnect between the issue at hand and the banking industry. I don't think they realize just how much the consumer needs to be informed.

We're a company in bankruptcy and have been operating on borrowed money.

The CPI report continues to be encouraging, ... These numbers are stimulating consumer spending by giving consumers more spending power. At the same time, lower inflation will also encourage the central bank to do whatever they need to do.

Credit unions and smaller banks were actually quicker than most large banks to offer online services because of the relationship they had with vendors and their capability to integrate web operations into their systems at a reasonable sum. A bank like Citibank had to do a huge internal thing to get the system up.

Credit card companies, credit unions, many retailers, as well as the American people, have lobbied for bankruptcy reform for years.

We created this business with no bank financing. We did this out of pocket.

Bond yields in Canada should go up. The economy is very robust and producing at full capacity, and the Bank of Canada may continue to raise interest rates.

Bonds will probably show a gradual decline toward when the central bank will shift monetary policy. The possibility of a policy shift will stay in the minds of investors, preventing them from buying debt.

Bonds will likely stay weak. The economy is growing and the central bank plans to shift policy around April.

Bonds are a little bit expensive right now. Consumers are spending a little bit aggressively, which may make the central bank nervous about rising prices. It may push the bank to tighten further.

Bond markets seem to have decided that perhaps there is a bit too much growth, not so much that they're fearful of a big break up in inflation ... but that central banks are going to keep chipping away at the foundations of cheap money.

Bondholders need more details, but anything that would prevent a bankruptcy certainly would be a positive. It's hard to make this situation more complex than it is.

Michael Lewis

Bruce and I both put $50 in a bank account. That's how we started the company.