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The fundamentals of the world economy are sound, low inflation, relatively stable and sound finances in the major industrial countries, and an ability to build from that so that the future is one that we can face with confidence.

The gap in how low- and high-income households view their current finances and future prospects is the widest in two decades. It's an unusual circumstance.

The finances have improved again this year. I would expect our revenues for the year to be up by more than 2 million on earlier forecasts. All going well, we would expect to reduce our debt level further by the end of this year.

The finances of those type of things really don't factor into our decisions.

And overhanging all our difficulties is the simple, brute fact that our state's public finances are in ruin. We have outspent our income year after year.

It's more difficult for a governor to have anything resembling a common touch if their personal finances are in a different solar system.

Everyone knows the KMT relies on black money. We all know that their finances come from abnormal channels, from state to party coffers and transfers of interest,

Everyone is gearing up, checking their finances and insurance. Fall coincides with that back-to-school mentality. The summer vacations are over now and it's time to square up and roll up your sleeves.

This oversight board is not just a board made up of people who will rubber-stamp the decisions of the Transportation Trust Fund Authority. This oversight board will have the statutory authority to not only oversee the TTFA finances but to make sure our debt ceiling and our capital program are in line with what we said it would be.

They have a huge cash flow that finances a whole city of people, and yet where you can grow from there is actually fairly limited. Microsoft's stock price isn't going anywhere, and in that environment, politics that were background noise rise to the foreground.

It's a turning point. Sony's higher forecast is a positive signal that the restructuring and efforts to improve finances and other reforms are leading to results.

Within a few months in 2008, household finances were crushed as asset values fell, millions of jobs were lost, countless credit cards were canceled, and thousands of homes were foreclosed on.

We will not put the long-term stability of the public finances at risk,

This way, both spouses are kept in the loop, and there are no secrets. There's no blame, no shame. It's taking your financial pulse: Did we meet our goals? What can be done better? You don't want to beat each other up--you want to make the finances work better.

We just took stock ... at the end of the season when we evaluated our finances it was absolutely clear we could not afford to pay the coach what we had been paying him.

It's foolish to say the finances don't look bleak. Of course, they do. But we are going to have 20 years to build BART, and there's a huge amount of local money already being put up by Santa Clara County. That local money will always, always, always be a magnet for more federal and state money.

This is the time of year finances are on people's mind. And this is the time to think about that and make small changes.

This is way in excess of market expectations and suggests that the Chancellor's finances will end the year in reasonable form and will certainly be a good platform for his budget on March 22.

If it were up to me maybe we?d have 35 sports, but we simply don?t have the finances to do it. In the foreseeable future I don?t see the finances to do it. No baseball for the foreseeable future.

If finances are a question, which they seem to be because grants are shrinking, this is a direction to go. Seniors have indicated they don't mind paying $1 or $2 each way, and that's a bargain.