Russell Jones Quotations

I would be surprised if there was a complete about-face. Japan has gone too far down the road to reform to turn away from it.

She wanted me to be there in case any of the children became distressed during the question-and-answer session. I think it was an honor and a great privilege to do so. She's a very nice woman.

If we are in an emergency weather situation and the land lines go down, we have cell phones.

Going into the election there was an expectation that Koizumi's popularity would be reflected in the results for the LDP. I'm a little bit surprised that the LDP didn't do better.

There is a lack of confidence but there were not any fundamental developments at all.

Linemen come in and get their trucks loaded up and away they go.

I think the real concern driving corporations is that they maintain profitability and that they do so in a way that is supportive of the environmental concerns of the citizens.

Winning the war will prove to be the easy part. Winning the peace and paying for the peace will be the tough part.

The decline seemed to kick in around the time of publication of data on machinery orders which is a key indicator of capital expenditure. It was well below forecast, down 12.5 percent on the month.

We were seeing, touching and hearing the degree of human suffering being experienced by children, adolescents and adults. I think there were moments when we all felt overwhelmed.

Everyone who is on call comes in -- every available person.

The supply is not there. All people have on hand is all they're going to have. We are just trying to keep our customers happy.

The stage opening alone, with an increase in height from 12 feet to 28 feet, allows us to pursue productions that require two-story settings. Even though the size has increased, we've captured the intimacy of the actor-audience relationship that was appreciated in the smaller Experimental Theater.

Both theaters will offer incredible artistic opportunities for production. The Hansen Theatre has a grid 65 feet above the stage that will allow us to quickly fly scenic elements on and off the stage area. The stage is fully trapped, meaning the floor is easily removable, so we can sink props or scenery into the floor of the stage.

The Bank of Japan is fiddling at the edges with existing policy, but this isn't a quantitative easing, ... a fairly significant set of steps.

Dollar/yen has responded to horrific weakness in data which has continued over the last business day in Japan. Machinery orders were a bit of a horror story.

It was a flow-over from yesterday's news that the LDP and the Liberal party are working towards a coalition and as part and parcel of that they are looking at further reductions in tax cuts,

These numbers are much better than anticipated. It is difficult to explain from the data we already have.

It's clear that Mr. McGee lied under oath. He should be prosecuted for domestic violence against Ms. Rucker and for perjury.

Some were out for maybe a few seconds, some for a few minutes, and others for hours. Some are still out.

The dynamic of the move in stocks is you have an extremely bombed-out market coupled with a central bank that has taken a slightly more adventurous approach to monetary policy. But in overall macro terms, the place is still a complete and utter economic disaster.

The major driving factors for the equity market were probably the upward finish on Wall Street and the IBJ announcement,

It started in the bond market which has been selling off aggressively in recent days,

That kicked into the equities market. Around 25 percent of bank profits come through bond holdings. If they are losing these capital gains then the banks are hit. People then started selling the yen because I think they started fearing things are not smelling too good here.

They're shorting the yen and that's the right attitude. There's a feeling we're reaching some kind of endgame,

They're going to kill somebody before we get a controlled intersection.

I don't see anything that retailers are doing significantly swaying people's decisions at this point.

The market wanted to rally, ... But I don't think anything fundamental has changed.