is kind of (the oil companies') good luck. They didn't do anything to earn it. And we're sitting here with a 150 billion bill from Katrina.
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In principle, as long as drug companies can cover their production costs and earn a normal profit on their sales, they would profit by selling their drugs to Medicare rather than being excluded from this huge market.
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I've always thought you'll have the movement in price before you'll see it on quantity side, ... As long as the price remains high, if you're a builder, you want to get the houses up in order to cash in.
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He was the one who had the courage to let the unemployment rate fall. Very few people thought the unemployment rate could fall that low.
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Until the psychology starts to shift or interest rates jump up, the market will probably stay strong, ... So far we haven't seen that. We've had a lot of stories on housing bubbles lately. Maybe that will affect the psychology.
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