We held a very long meeting to decide how many of the paperbacks we would buy. And the number we decided on was staggering compared to other books. It's the largest buy I've made for one book in 20 years.

Just because a meeting is held in closed session doesn't render it confidential. You can hold a meeting in closed session but you can't make people not talk.

I got a call from Joyce Cox. I was told that a meeting to elect officers was being held Jan. 30 for anyone interested in the miner's museum. At that meeting I was elected president and accepted. I didn't know there was anything wrong with what we had done.

You let the consumer decide whether to buy a ticket or not. You tell them it's $300 million. You let the consumer decide whether to buy it or not.

No one's going to be keen to buy the market now with the ECB meeting looming. We're likely to get more reminders that inflation is higher than the ECB would like and they will be raising rates again in June.

The usefulness of a meeting rises with the square of the number of people present.