When you have risk aversion in Japan, the normal day-to-day outflows that happen in a normal market environment slow down.
If you are an investor who's retired and hopes to live off the income that your portfolio is generating, then we would focus just on the dividend yield.
Industries that make goods and services that people have to buy, regardless of economic circumstances, are bound to do well whatever the economic conditions.
We believe that people moving their portfolios to an overweight in bonds will be disappointed over the long-term and will significantly underperform an asset allocation that over-weights equities.
Nevada has a world-class economy. It will only build a world-class culture with world-class research universities coupled with the Desert Research Institute.
I was always attracted to taking a novel position, but one grounded in the materials I'd been given, not made up out of whole cloth.
I think it's common sense to say that the longer away from a crime it gets prosecuted, the less deterrent effect there is.
I think every parent takes more pleasure in seeing their child succeed than seeing themselves succeed.
The ecclesiastical system of Rome, and particularly its leaders, for a thousand years and more thought that the earth is fixed and that everything else revolves about it.
In my view, there is an urgent need to communicate with the public and help to explain where there is consensus, and where are there doubts about the issues of sustainable development.
I am neither accusing President Obama of having committed high crimes and misdemeanors nor advocating his impeachment.
It's one thing to earnestly try but fail to bring the two sides together. Though Democrats will deny it, that was the case with George W. Bush.
Obama hasn't been divisive just because his policies are so unpopular, though that's a large part of it.
It's not coincidence that the U.S. is in last place in the world in terms of corporate tax rate. It's because our system is set up to block tax reform.
Those who devote their lives to serving our country, children, and neighborhoods are giving back. They have answered the call to serve.
Concentrating wealth in the hands of the few and deregulating financial institutions and practices lead to speculative bubbles that eventually burst - and that brings the whole country down.
Thank you for the opportunity for the Democratic Party and progressives to reclaim the votes of the sane citizens of these United States.
I think blaming the president for high gas prices is like blaming Rudy Giuliani for 9/11.
Do we want in this nation to lose the backbone of manufacturing in this country? Do we want to be a nation that doesn't want to manufacture anything?
I certainly never thought I would run for office myself. If someone had suggested it, I would have laughed out loud.
I actually prepared Vice President Biden for his debate in the last election. I played Sarah Palin. It's a little tough debating a woman.
