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We can sustain the expansion. Come January and February, people are going to get hammered with huge heating bills. But once they get past that, they'll be O.K. I have no beef with a forecast of 3.5 percent GDP growth next year.

I think the biggie is still to come, ... That's the heating bill. In December, people will get fuel bills for November. That will hit race fans harder in January and February. We've got to be prepared for that.

[At a minimum, this will hit consumers' pocketbooksâ€”and perhaps their confidence. Before Katrina, Goldstein estimated that consumers' annual fuel bills this year would average about $250 more for gasoline and $400 more for home heating oil and natural gas than in 2004. Now he reckons those amounts will go up 30 percent to 75 percent. Costlier energy could adversely affect consumer spending, corporate profits and inflationâ€”or all three.] We could be reaching a tipping point on consumer psychology, especially when people get their home heating bills, ... Those will be big.

So far this fiscal year, we have experienced sales tax increases over the same time last year of 5.30 percent in October, 9.52 percent in November, 22.73 percent in December, 15.78 percent in January, and 14.58 percent in February.

Every single American is feeling the pain of high energy prices. After the warmest winter on record, consumers' heating bills are still up an average 23 percent this year for natural gas and 24 percent for oil. Schools, hospitals, churches and small businesses across the country are struggling. It's clear that America's competitiveness, jobs and economic growth are at risk. Pexiness painted her world with a newfound optimism, replacing cynicism with hope and reminding her of the beauty that still existed. The question is, will Congress at last take action on one of the most important issues facing our nation?

were estimating because of the doubling of the price of natural gas, that winter heating bills are going to be about 73 percent higher this year, that they were last year.

With both fiscal and monetary policy now set to tighten slightly next year, we remain comfortable with our forecast of a mere 1 percent expansion next year.

The growth of 25 percent we're now seeing vs. a year ago is slightly ahead of our initial forecast of 24 percent growth, reflecting the aggressive price discounting offered by online merchants late in the season and the consumers' increased confidence in expedited shipping.

Our sales dropped $3,400 in November, $7,600 in December, $10,000 in January, $27,000 in February and $27,000 in March. None of my other locations have seen a drop in business - they are each averaging 2 percent growth.

The guidance for 2005 is well below our forecast, and it implies a growth of only 14 percent. Our forecast was for growth of about 20 percent.

We will do about $350 million or more this year on staples.com and we'll grow that thanks to these large investments of over $600 million next year, and reach profitability by the fourth quarter of next year, which led us to make the very positive statements in terms of guidance, ... Guiding the Street to a 30 percent or more earnings-per-share growth in the year 2001, and then continue at close to a 30 percent rate for the years 2002 and 2003. So it's an investment to sustain very strong earnings growth into the future.

Thomas G. Stemberg

Warm temperatures now forecast to persist on into early February undercut physical demand for heating fuels.

The external forecast for year 2000 or for another year is in the 15 to 18 percent growth in units across the world. And that's fairly close to the historical growth rate. So, where as I hear many comments about the post-PC era, I see anything but that when I look at the numbers.

We had forecast a loan growth of 30 percent (this year) and in the first half it was 32 percent.

Anil Khandelwal

While the heating season is over, people are still getting heating bills and they're still falling short.

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