Delos Smith
Delos Smith
coming grass kinds nice
I see robins and the grass coming up and all kinds of nice signs. But it has to be proven.
business fingers leaks
I've been in the business 40 years...almost 40 years. I can tell you the leaks in 40 years and I won't even use all the fingers on one hand.
bad recession time
Probably Asia's diminishing a little bit. But I don't think that this suggests any kind of bad time or recession coming.
corporate equity greed lack market people
Corporate scandals, equity market problems, a lack of transparency, a lot of greed -- it was not just the Dow falling, it was all of these things that make people very, very nervous.
ends key whether
The whole key is whether or not (a war) ends quickly.
fox hours msnbc people pounding war
A lot of people don't read newspapers, and we don't have 24 hours a day of CNN, MSNBC and Fox just pounding you with war news.
behind cautious people relaxed report saying suggest troubles
You don't want people to be cautious if you want them to buy. You want them relaxed and saying their troubles are behind them. This (employment) report doesn't suggest that.
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You want the consumer buoyant. Most consumers are not current-events oriented. When you get everybody involved in current events, when they usually are not, then people are not going to go out and buy things just for pleasure of it.
gasoline higher impact prices
This is not a very pretty picture. The higher gasoline prices had more of an impact that most had expected.
cnn longer mood retail suspense
As long as suspense lingers, you will have a longer CNN effect. That's not what you want -- mood is very important for the retail world.
economic function largest longer major market state systems
There are no longer really state economic systems that can function by themselves. Most of our largest corporations are in every major market in the world. We're intertwined.
build higher housing people starts
Housing starts would be much much higher if they could find the people to build the homes.
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Does that have economic implications? To me, the answer is yes. In a sense, we have to wait for recovery until this group wants to sleep with each other again.
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Consumers right now are bargain hunters, and that's what Wal-Mart is talking about. If you're offering a bargain and the consumer thinks it will go away, you'll get the consumer to buy, but there is no impulse buying going on.