Paul Mason Quotations

The point comes where there starts to be a disconnect between the attempts to rapidly jack up those prices for faster MIPS and IBM's desire to push the cost of MIPS down,

One, the oil pipeline is restored. Two, consumers quit buying gas as if there's a gas shortage,

I think that is what is best for the county, ... I've gotten a lot of letters from businesses and the Vigo County School Corporation. They are all for staying on Eastern time. They would rather be on Central, but want to stay in sync with Indianapolis. I am still in favor of staying with Indianapolis.

It is doubtful that it will last, but it may explain the increase in consumer confidence over the period as purchasing power may have increased, at least temporarily.

I'm shocked, there's nothing to justify the prices we're paying before Katrina, however there's a little more to justify the prices we're paying now,

We anticipate several hundred new jobs in Greensboro over the next few years.

We were able to recognize the strong value in the assets and leases to create a unique investment opportunity for Republic to the satisfaction of all parties involved. This is our second transaction with DVB in less than one year and our first with Airbus. I look forward to bringing these parties together again in future acquisitions with Republic as the originator.

The December value of the LEI injects uncertainty about the middle of 2006.

To say that there are different rules that would somehow apply, that the standards we use in other times are only 97 percent and now we're going for 100 percent, that's not a shading that I'm willing to participate in.

Even after adjusting for seasonality, the rate has fallen every month since June of last year.

Despite the increases in fuel and gasoline prices, the overall inflation, or deflation, locally continues to defy logic.

This is about the future of the rural area for our children and grandchildren.

This month's decline in the CPI was small. But on top of the two previous months, it means that prices have fallen 1.6 percent, or 6.6 percent on an annualized basis, since October of last year.

This may suggest that the economic conditions in the second half of 2006 may be stronger than the first.

Consumer demand has been very soft for most of 2005 and this has forced retailers across Europe to be extremely cautious in investing in new product on top of existing high inventory levels.

The addition of this position is consistent with one of our key growth initiatives to invest in and develop talent.

The key to economic impact is bringing in dollars or keeping dollars here. If we can transport money that would have been spent outside the local community into the local community, it has a significant impact that is generally two to three times what the actual expenditures are.

In the mainframe world, contracts state that if I go out and trade my IBM mainframe for one that's twice as fast, then I have to go back to the vendor of the software and pay more money, ... Companies like BMC and CA have done very nicely over the last 10 years, and certainly over the last 5 years, when MIPS growth was just outrageous.

The categories revealing declines are not surprising, reflecting the discounting by retailers that routinely occurs during the later stages of the holiday season.