“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
“Consumers are not on a spending spree, but they continue to spend,”
Sung Won Sohn
“That's one of the reasons why consumers are not going on a spending spree, though they're keeping the economic ship afloat. When higher unemployment numbers come out, that will probably rattle consumer confidence a bit.”
“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
“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 '80s and '90s residential building spree ... has done a real disservice to the once charming neighborhoods of old Hawaii,”
Geoffrey Lewis
“It is a favorable sign that retailers have not joined in the job-cutting spree,”
John Challenger
