E. B. White

E. B. White
Elwyn Brooks "E. B." White was an American writer. He was a contributor to The New Yorker magazine and a co-author of the English language style guide The Elements of Style, which is commonly known as "Strunk & White". He also wrote books for children, including Stuart Little, Charlotte's Web, and The Trumpet of the Swan. Charlotte's Web was voted the top children's novel in a 2012 survey of School Library Journal readers, an accomplishment repeated in earlier surveys...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth11 July 1899
CountryUnited States of America
Initially the market was extremely disappointed with the figures, that is they were prepared to see much larger draws (falls), particularly in distillates.
I don't think so. We haven't even had a (furniture) market like this in a long time. People keep saying you should stay open, but we'd be back in the same place in six months.
A lot of the location decision related to what I did in the hotel business. Although I didn't have to decide where to build those hotels, I did have to decide who my market was.
I guess the real question here is, what is the cost of bond market volatility and what is the cost of the Fed's miscommunication with the market? ... They went out and told everybody to buy bonds and then they cut their legs off.
This is as good as it gets, ... what you need to recognized is that today's market valuations are clearly at extremes.
The Noble Gibbons acquisition fits perfectly with our strategy of establishing a leading position in the world's top business capitals. Moscow continues to attract significant investment capital as its economy and real estate market matures.
If you think about what's really driven the drive in equity markets over the last couple of years, it's been those low interest rates. What's brought all the money in has been that we took short-term interest rates back from over 6 percent (several years ago) to 3 percent.
As long as this economic environment stays intact, the market can grind its way North. You pay a lot of attention to valuation and you have to keep your eye on the long term. If you have funds that you need in the short term, I think you probably need to take some money off the table.
It really is a very good barometer, we think, of how active employers are.
As a New York-based sports editor put it to me,
That's been one of the knocks on me, ... that people think I'm not strong. So that's one of the things I want to work on in my last year.
They started cracking jokes, and I said: 'Ain't nothing funny when I have to work the next day.'
This is his hometown. What better way of honoring him?
Energy costs have just gone sky high on us as everyone else. Anything the school system can do to try and conserve energy we are going to do.