Gary Gordon Quotations

A big spending driver over the past two years -- about $400 billion this year -- has been homeowners taking cash out of their homes, with the great bulk of it spent.

I understand that the businesses are open again. So presumably the problem is taken care of.

These are up-and-coming acts from the greater St. Louis area.

It's hard to imagine that there will be a move towards yanking that guarantee, or weakening the implied guarantee, because it just makes too much sense for the average U.S. citizen. Their benefit is they save money on the mortgage rate because of Fannie and Freddie's status, but bear the risk of either or both of these businesses going bankrupt. The odds of that are so small that the benefit, in my view, greatly outweighs the cost, and it's hard to see Congress changing that story. And Fannie and Freddie's debt is the really the cheapest form of debt outside of Treasury debt.

It's probably the saddest set of circumstances I've seen.

If they were doing something that created the problem, or if there was something that was making them vulnerable to the problem, I just don't know.

The only thing we could do is acknowledge it or pretend it wasn't there. But what could we do that would be more powerful than what the Health Department already does?

We can always take a doctor's license, but let's assume that we live in a country in which, if you've paid your debt to society, that you can be rehabilitated.

I don't think there is any given score that Cedar Hill or any other district would assign that allowed only those who score above that point to be interviewed.

Nobody called on this one like they do if there's a new health regulation that they feel is unfair.