#mer

So many actors are not open in front of the camera - they have a persona. ↗

— Jane Campion

#front #many #open #persona

An increase in the relative price of products from the low wage manufacturers in Asia and Latin America will also make those products less attractive to American consumers. ↗

— Martin Feldstein

#america #american #american consumers #asia #attractive

Homeowners who refinanced their mortgages took out cash and reduced their monthly payments at the same time. Much of the cash obtained by refinancing was spent on consumer durables, home improvements and the like. ↗

— Martin Feldstein

#consumer #home #homeowners #improvements #like

My theme this evening is that America needs a competitive dollar. ↗

— Martin Feldstein

#competitive #dollar #evening #needs #theme

The American people are not anti-immigrant. We are concerned about the lack of coherence in our immigration policy and enforcement. ↗

— Chris Cannon

#american #american people #coherence #concerned #enforcement

If you compare the size of our reserves of Saudi Arabia and the whole Middle East, it's like three times as much as all of that combined and that's just the easily, readily available 1800 billion barrels and there are probably 3 billion barrels that are commercially just under that, available. ↗

— Chris Cannon

#available #barrels #billion #combined #commercially

The price of imported oil in the US doubled between summer 2003 and summer 2005, reducing consumers' purchasing power by more than 1 per cent of gross domestic product. ↗

— Martin Feldstein

#cent #consumers #domestic #doubled #gross

To finance this trade deficit, the U.S. has to borrow from the rest of the world or sell American assets like stocks, businesses, and real estate to the rest of the world. ↗

— Martin Feldstein

#assets #borrow #businesses #deficit #estate

And so if your competitors aren't growing, if there isn't a competitive reason to grow, and you want focus and discipline to add customers to existing stores, you adjust your strategy. ↗

— Jim Cantalupo

#adjust #competitive #competitors #customers #discipline

Salads was a big indicator of that - there was a huge market out there for it. And why not tap it? Some of the things we are doing now around the globe are responding to customers. It's not because some guy sued you. ↗

— Jim Cantalupo

#because #big #customers #doing #globe