It's just that other areas are more attractive, such as the mortgage market,

Rural areas are not an attractive market for a lot of the big companies.

The market can move for irrational reasons, and you have to be prepared for that, ... you need to make big bets when the odds are in your favor -- not big enough to ruin you, but big enough to make a difference.

Favouring employment versus the financial markets is a decent policy; certainly not beneficial for the currency or the gilt market, but beneficial for the people.

I noticed there was no mortgage brokerage in Walnut Cove. Most of the other areas have been saturated. We want to get this town ready for when the people come.

At $1.75, some believed the market had reached its peak, and they said the same thing at $2. Now we're at $2.60 and nobody knows where the top is going to be.