“has stopped bleeding ... a hiring spree in 2003 looks like a low-odds bet.”
David Rosenberg
“After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn't do it. I sure as hell wouldn't want to live in a society where the only people allowed guns are the police and the military.”
William S. Burroughs
“The spending spree is over. Take that ATM off the front of your house. You're not going to be able to draw cash out of your house anymore. Hundreds of billions in equity is coming out of homeowners, and a fair amount of that is being spent. The [refinancing] boom presupposes increases in housing prices. All it takes is for housing to go flat and the housing story is over.”
Jack Ablin
“The consumer can pop for a spree now and then, but spending at its basic level is pressured by a negative savings rate.”
Robert Brusca
“He went on a little arson spree.”
Chris Baumann
“This is like a shopping spree for local spaces and booking agents and arts administrators.”
Lawrence Kampf
“It is a favorable sign that retailers have not joined in the job-cutting spree,”
John Challenger
