Mark Olson
Mark Olson
anecdotes attention faster information pay reporting rolls useful
Real-time, on-the-ground anecdotes get to us faster than does the information that rolls up through the reporting process. Those anecdotes are enormously useful and we pay a lot of attention to them.
carefully core impact increases pass potential price watching
We are watching very carefully the potential impact of inflation, and especially any price increases that would pass through to core inflation.
across anecdotal hear increased power pricing starting
We are only now starting to hear indications of increased pricing power, but they're still anecdotal and we don't see it across the board.
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Yeah, and the younger guys have a hard time getting going.
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If anything was to happen to a patient taken to the forensic unit because there was nowhere else available in the system it would raise a major duty of care issue for the hospital and the State Government.
absence additional helped inflation limited time
For most of the time that I have been on the board, there has been very limited pass-through of the additional costs. And the absence of that pass-through has helped keep inflation down,
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I got 650. That'd be considered small, I guess.
employment gains gulf income maintained outside underlying
underlying gains in employment and income were well maintained outside the Gulf region.
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Big Love. It's really an odd way to look at marriage.
believe best children interests parents relationships rights sustained
We don't believe that parents have rights over their children as if they were objects. What's important is that the child's relationships be sustained and maintained, so long as those relationships are in the best interests of the child.
determine fix monetary nor policy shape yield
We would not try to use monetary policy to fix or to determine the shape of the yield curve. That would not be appropriate, nor could that be conducted I think,
core cost energy impetus increases posing pressure price producers risk thereby
These (energy) price increases will put upward pressure on the cost of the producers of other items, thereby posing the risk of some impetus to core inflation,
government note secure
This is the most secure note the U.S. government has ever produced.
extremely modest
This is an extremely modest step, but it is a step.