Interest rates aren't as critical since half their customers pay cash for their purchases. That protects them a little bit from housing cycles.

That difference of roughly 1.5 percentage points is enough to generate $150 in interest income that you'd otherwise leave on the table with a $10,000 investment.

The James Brown story is not about James Brown. It's about who's getting paid, whose interest is involved, who can squeeze the estate and black history for more.

He'd have a natural interest in what a Russian spymaster had to say, ... It turned out later that he was the person Hanssen originally sent his letter to apply for his job at the KGB.

We are starting with stocks fully valued and short- and long-term interest rates still hovering near four-decade lows. Large bull-market moves are generally accompanied by, or preceded by, declining rates, and we don't have that scenario today.

But none drew interest like this. I'm going to the oral argument myself.