George Will
George Will
George Frederick Willis an American newspaper columnist and political commentator. He is a Pulitzer Prize–winner known for his conservative commentary on politics. In 1986, The Wall Street Journal called him "perhaps the most powerful journalist in America," in a league with Walter Lippmann...
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth4 May 1941
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Barack Obama hopes his famous health care victory will mark him as a transformative president. History, however, may judge it to have been his missed opportunity to be one.
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Some calamities - the 1929 stock market crash, Pearl Harbor, 9/11 - have come like summer lightning, as bolts from the blue. The looming crisis of America's Ponzi entitlement structure is different. Driven by the demographics of an aging population, its causes, timing and scope are known.
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Japan is closed today so the market is taking the U.S. as a reference. But there's not much activity because investors are taking a wait-and-see strategy ahead of Greenspan's speech.
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Korea is a significant market for American semiconductor producers -- in 2005, the Korean semiconductor market was approximately $4.5 billion.
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Our forward group is in good shape and our goaltending is in good shape, but we have question marks on defense. We'll play some of our young players back there and see how they do. We have five or six young guys we are going to give opportunities to and we'll see who is able to grab those spots.
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Our goal is to increase market share in 2003. There's a long way to go...but this is a good start.
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Our U.S. consumer market share remains on track, with volume share down less than one percentage point for the quarter, but unchanged year to date. We fully expect to meet our strategic goal of at least holding share for the full year, while improving the quality of our product mix toward the premium end.
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I think I made my mark playing instruments like the Minimoog, because I learnt how to make them talk; I learnt how to get the blues out of them.
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I think in terms of tone it was a little more dovish than what the market was expecting.
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(Wisconsin) is a team that made its mark playing great defense. (Friday night) they played solid. But the big difference was Glenn Fisher for us. He kept us in the game in the first period. He played extremely well.
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While (Wilma won't affect) the oil sector, expect the insurance, retail and construction sectors to be heavily traded this week. With the October Consumer confidence and home sales due out later, the U.S. market could well end up deep in the red as inflation keeps the pressure on.
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Markets themselves are looking for stability, and I think we have underestimated the capacity of Europe... to actually create a more stable framework for the whole issue of debt management, bonds, and so on.
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Markets can't think about anything beyond about three months. This is very long-term for markets, which is why the important things in life have got to be taken outside of the marketplace.
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Markets are still trying to firm up where rates will peak in the U.S. and Europe.