These are my people. I want to get back to New Orleans when I can, but for now, I'm helping those who are here.

We can sustain the expansion. Come January and February, people are going to get hammered with huge heating bills. But once they get past that, they'll be O.K. I have no beef with a forecast of 3.5 percent GDP growth next year.

We're all satisfied and glad he's going back.

I'm dubious that the boost in corporate profitability from outsourcing has contributed much to creating new jobs.

We don't build stairs here. Everything in New Orleans is up off the ground with stairs, but here everything is built on a cement slab.

Until we can reach and sustain job growth of at least 150,000 every month, there will be growing slack in the job market. And until that happens, we are unlikely to see the kind of healthy wage and income growth that can sustain a strong recovery.