Douglas Duncan Quotes (27 Quotes)

Jobs growth has not been strong enough for the Fed to begin raising short term interest rates at any time soon.

I support the process and will await the ultimate resolution by the Maryland Court of Appeals. Right now, we need to focus our attention on passing a strong medical-decision making bill, and oppose Governor Ehrlich's efforts to weaken these protections.

I am not aware that it has occurred before. At the end of the day, everyone hopes all the borrowers will be able to return to a home and meet their mortgage payments on time and be re-established in their housing.

People need to make decisions for themselves, for their families, for the groups they're associated with,

Through providing absolute on-time service and by raising the bar in this business we should be able to keep taking market share.

We're asking people, as best they can, go about your normal routine Make sure you go to work, make sure you send your kids to school.

A fair number of first-time home purchases were brought forward because rates were so good, and a number of people also moved up in the market, when they were able to get a bigger mortgage at a lower rate. When rates move up, you won't get those first-time sales or the move-up factor. Is that offset by the benefits of economic expansion In our view, not quite.

I would question any fee. Let them know you're comparison shopping among several lenders.

If you have any information at all that you think might be helpful, please call 240-777-2600, ... We're also offering a reward of up to 50,000 for information leading to the arrest and indictment of whoever is responsible for this.

Some companies were just assigning people a closing date.

Anecdotally we're hearing that lenders' pipelines (pending mortgages) are down 50 percent from their peaks, ... There is no question companies are seeing the pressures of competition.

In our industry, the fuel surcharge is designed to manage normal supply-and-demand market forces of fuel, not temporary spikes caused by disasters.

Companies are losing money to keep market share. The consumer is being subsidized because the competition is so fierce. For the short run, the consumer is getting a better deal.

It comes down to what people are doing with their home equity.

We expect modest rises in delinquencies in the quarters ahead, particularly as related to Hurricane Katrina and its effect on the Gulf Coast.

These are very modest interest rate increases for the level of economic growth we are expecting.

You won't see any serious slowing unless rates jumped to 8 percent, in which case I'd expect a 10 percent decline in values,

There are some very important signals emerging in that we have seen some pretty good companies go on the block for sale or have been sold recently, which is a clear sign that consolidation is seriously underway.

Some LTL companies wait until they have a full load before dispatching a truck. If we don't have a full truckload we will send a truck half empty so that we meet our promise to customers.

Locating villages is difficult for helicopter pilots. Adding an extra hour of flying time in the search for a landing zone is straining airframes.

Our forecast is for long-term rates to stay around 7.25 percent through the middle of the year.

We see housing as being strong over the next three years within a strong economy.

I am disappointed, but not surprised, that the Bush Administration would deny hard working people access to cheaper prescription medications,

We are asking people to walk their children to school, and to get children together and to assist them as best they can, ... We're asking for parent volunteers to look as they're walking if there are other kids walking separately, to bring them into the group and assist them that way.

People are trying to judge the degree of the (housing) slowdown and whether it is a slowdown, and if they are on the margins in terms of making a final decision, a small interest rate change one way or the other can have the effect of changing people's minds.

The baby boomers aren't done buying.

We expect home sales will drop marginally -- about 3 percent -- in each of the next two years from this year's level, which will be an all-time record,