You're in the subterranean world in this particular issue. So little of it is aboveboard and legal and monitored, nobody's counting anything. You're inevitably going to be in the realm of anecdote rather than data.

It's about as good as you can expect a mayor to do under the current fiscal circumstances. He should get high marks on this.

Fact of the matter is, there is no hip world, there is no straight world. There's a world, you see, which has people in it who believe in a variety of different things. Everybody believes in something and everybody, by virtue of the fact that they believe in something, uses that something to support their own existence

For an institution that was brought to its depths, Citigroup has built one of the strongest franchises in the world, not just the United States,

The guys get a kick out of it. It's a small world.

There isn't a board of directors in the world that isn't smiling over what they gave away.