A factor on everyone's minds is the pipeline. Investors want to know what's coming up on the menu.

They just don't make sense for (small investors). They'll get eaten up by the commissions.

The Forbes factor is a big factor and it's something the [Bush] campaign team in Austin must to keep their eye on. He spent $40 million last time. Yes, he's raising some money this time for the first time but he's going to spend what it takes.

I'm suspicious that what's behind the academic call for doing away with athletic scholarships is a nostalgia for the good old days, which leaves out everyone but white Anglo-Saxon Protestants, ... world's biggest cocktail party.

He'd be hurt, but he'd be alive.

You have to know what you're buying in to. Hybrid securities are going to be the most sensitive to any bad times in the credit markets.