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Rather than have a numerical dollar amount – which doesn’t make any sense, we just end up raising it every other year – is convert it to something like a debt-to-GDP ratio, a number that could be agreed to, have a cure period thereafter. And if that cure does not occur, certain guardrails go up on discretionary spending. – Brian Fitzpatrick	Found on CNN 1 year ago
It’s really revolving credit, mostly credit card debt, that’s carrying the day right now, a lot of that would be on essentials, some of it on discretionary stuff as well; but with the average credit card rate approaching 20%, it’s a tough time to be growing your balance. – Ted Rossman	Found on CNN 1 year ago
When families decide to get on a budget, they do not target the largest and immovable items of their spending, like their mortgage, first, they aim to restrain discretionary spending — they eat out less, shop less and find cheaper ways of entertaining themselves. – Russ Vought	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
This year, we're looking at negative discretionary cash flow for the first time since the 2008-09 financial crisis. – Goldman Sachs	Found on CNN 1 year ago
I would expect that retail sales will continue their slower pace of growth and that essentials will grow more than discretionary goods, psychologically, consumers are giving greater scrutiny to their discretionary goods. – Tamara Charm	Found on CNN 1 year ago
What we ought to be doing is we ought to turn everything into discretionary spending so that it's all evaluated so that we can fix problems or fix programs that are broken that are going to be going bankrupt. – Ron Johnson	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Families consider back-to-school and college items an essential category, and they are taking whatever steps they can, including cutting back on discretionary spending, shopping sales and buying store or off-brand items, in order to purchase what they need for the upcoming school year. – National Retail Federation	Found on CNN 1 year ago
I think people will economize on their driving only so much, the hit will be to other forms of discretionary spending. – Mark Zandi	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Should the Government maintain its position that verification remains impossible, the Government can explain in the record why it is safe for senior Department of Justice and Cabinet officials to travel to India in person on discretionary trips but not safe for civil servants with statutory responsibilities to perform to do the same, even if only virtually. – Judge Vaden	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
I don't think that they'll have a case as far as suing for the fact that this guy was out on bail and it was such a low bail, it's because courts have said – this is all the way up to the Supreme Court and courts across the country – have said that the government has immunity for discretionary functions. – Matthew Haicken	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
The competitive grants will probably be the slowest to come out, it will be a real heavy lift for DOT to get this level of discretionary funding out the door. – Susan Howard	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Even in this economic state, we see a lot of people willing to put down $ 500 for a new console, we don't foresee anything sort of gaming crash due to economic factors because there are a lot of people stuck at home, shifting discretionary spending into gaming. – Carter Rogers	Found on CNN 3 years ago
To consume all of those recommended foods encompasses the vast majority of their calorie allowance leaving very few' discretionary' or empty sugary calories without causing weight gain. – Van Horn	Found on CNN 3 years ago
Sears Roebuck is in a very dangerous position, before the crisis hit, the consumer economy was robust. Even during those times Sears Roebuck wasn't doing particularly well, and things will be tougher going forward. They sell a lot of discretionary products -- that's the area where things are going to be cut back. – Neil Saunders	Found on CNN 3 years ago
The Bank is coordinating The Bank actions with those that the Chancellor will announce later today in the budget in order to ensure that our initiatives are complementary and that they will collectively have maximum impact consistent with our independent responsibilities, we have anecdotal evidence that we're building up through our agency network and our direct contacts with businesses, where we have seen a sharp fall in trading conditions, particularly in retail, consumer discretionary items over the course of the last week. – Mark Carney	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
We have anecdotal evidence that we're building up through our agency network and our direct contacts with businesses, where we have seen a sharp fall in trading conditions, particularly in retail, consumer discretionary items over the course of the last week. – Mark Carney	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
If you back the lens up and say 'How has consumer discretionary done for the whole year and when did it top out?', it topped out right when we started to cycle into the things that hadn't been working. – Art Hogan	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
The fact we are having rotations is healthy because that just means we are not glued to what has been working in 2019, as consumer discretionary goes through that mini-rotation, it probably comes out of it and next week is probably that catalyst to at least see what has been overdone on the downside here. – Art Hogan	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
In an environment like this, where discretionary spending is very limited, this could have a big impact. – Temi Popoola	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
Relationship managers coming over to us see this as an opportunity. Otherwise they wouldn't come, they consider our investment process and our discretionary performance, because if they want to bring clients over they need to ensure that they have a very interesting and well-working platform to be able to deliver. And that is the case. – Christian Nolting	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
Thats fiscally totally irresponsible and a game, [Mulvaney]wants maximum pressure in September to squeeze down as hard as he can on non-defense discretionary spending. – Steny Hoyer	Found on FOX News 4 years ago
The Committee has failed to point to any authority establishing a legitimate legislative purpose for the Committee's unprecedented and extraordinarily intrusive demands : including the demand to examine the entire investigative files of numerous individuals whom the President has chosen as his senior advisors, as I have explained in multiple previous letters, it is clearly established as a matter of law that the decision to grant or deny a security clearance is a discretionary function that belongs exclusively to the Executive Branch. – Pat Cipollone	Found on CNN 5 years ago
There has been some misunderstanding of the new rule and I would point out that it is designed to prevent any opportunity for the caddie to stand behind the player as he begins to take his stance, we appreciate it was a very unfortunate situation yesterday and I completely understand Keith Pelley's concerns... but there is no discretionary element to the rule precisely so that it is easier to understand and can be applied consistently. – Martin Slumbers	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
It's not only the church -- it's also the broader community, the Minister for Migration could solve( the situation) in one day -- by using The Minister for Migration discretionary powers. There is a solution. – Martine Goeman	Found on CNN 5 years ago

Rather than have a numerical dollar amount – which doesn’t make any sense, we just end up raising it every other year – is convert it to something like a debt-to-GDP ratio, a number that could be agreed to, have a cure period thereafter. And if that cure does not occur, certain guardrails go up on discretionary spending.

– Brian Fitzpatrick

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It’s really revolving credit, mostly credit card debt, that’s carrying the day right now, a lot of that would be on essentials, some of it on discretionary stuff as well; but with the average credit card rate approaching 20%, it’s a tough time to be growing your balance.

– Ted Rossman

Found on CNN
1 year ago

When families decide to get on a budget, they do not target the largest and immovable items of their spending, like their mortgage, first, they aim to restrain discretionary spending — they eat out less, shop less and find cheaper ways of entertaining themselves.

– Russ Vought

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

This year, we're looking at negative discretionary cash flow for the first time since the 2008-09 financial crisis.

– Goldman Sachs

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I would expect that retail sales will continue their slower pace of growth and that essentials will grow more than discretionary goods, psychologically, consumers are giving greater scrutiny to their discretionary goods.

– Tamara Charm

Found on CNN
1 year ago

What we ought to be doing is we ought to turn everything into discretionary spending so that it's all evaluated so that we can fix problems or fix programs that are broken that are going to be going bankrupt.

– Ron Johnson

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Families consider back-to-school and college items an essential category, and they are taking whatever steps they can, including cutting back on discretionary spending, shopping sales and buying store or off-brand items, in order to purchase what they need for the upcoming school year.

– National Retail Federation

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I think people will economize on their driving only so much, the hit will be to other forms of discretionary spending.

– Mark Zandi

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Should the Government maintain its position that verification remains impossible, the Government can explain in the record why it is safe for senior Department of Justice and Cabinet officials to travel to India in person on discretionary trips but not safe for civil servants with statutory responsibilities to perform to do the same, even if only virtually.

– Judge Vaden

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I don't think that they'll have a case as far as suing for the fact that this guy was out on bail and it was such a low bail, it's because courts have said – this is all the way up to the Supreme Court and courts across the country – have said that the government has immunity for discretionary functions.

– Matthew Haicken

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The competitive grants will probably be the slowest to come out, it will be a real heavy lift for DOT to get this level of discretionary funding out the door.

– Susan Howard

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Even in this economic state, we see a lot of people willing to put down $ 500 for a new console, we don't foresee anything sort of gaming crash due to economic factors because there are a lot of people stuck at home, shifting discretionary spending into gaming.

– Carter Rogers

Found on CNN
3 years ago

To consume all of those recommended foods encompasses the vast majority of their calorie allowance leaving very few' discretionary' or empty sugary calories without causing weight gain.

– Van Horn

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Sears Roebuck is in a very dangerous position, before the crisis hit, the consumer economy was robust. Even during those times Sears Roebuck wasn't doing particularly well, and things will be tougher going forward. They sell a lot of discretionary products -- that's the area where things are going to be cut back.

– Neil Saunders

Found on CNN
3 years ago

The Bank is coordinating The Bank actions with those that the Chancellor will announce later today in the budget in order to ensure that our initiatives are complementary and that they will collectively have maximum impact consistent with our independent responsibilities, we have anecdotal evidence that we're building up through our agency network and our direct contacts with businesses, where we have seen a sharp fall in trading conditions, particularly in retail, consumer discretionary items over the course of the last week.

– Mark Carney

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

We have anecdotal evidence that we're building up through our agency network and our direct contacts with businesses, where we have seen a sharp fall in trading conditions, particularly in retail, consumer discretionary items over the course of the last week.

– Mark Carney

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

If you back the lens up and say 'How has consumer discretionary done for the whole year and when did it top out?', it topped out right when we started to cycle into the things that hadn't been working.

– Art Hogan

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

The fact we are having rotations is healthy because that just means we are not glued to what has been working in 2019, as consumer discretionary goes through that mini-rotation, it probably comes out of it and next week is probably that catalyst to at least see what has been overdone on the downside here.

– Art Hogan

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

In an environment like this, where discretionary spending is very limited, this could have a big impact.

– Temi Popoola

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Relationship managers coming over to us see this as an opportunity. Otherwise they wouldn't come, they consider our investment process and our discretionary performance, because if they want to bring clients over they need to ensure that they have a very interesting and well-working platform to be able to deliver. And that is the case.

– Christian Nolting

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Thats fiscally totally irresponsible and a game, [Mulvaney]wants maximum pressure in September to squeeze down as hard as he can on non-defense discretionary spending.

– Steny Hoyer

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

The Committee has failed to point to any authority establishing a legitimate legislative purpose for the Committee's unprecedented and extraordinarily intrusive demands : including the demand to examine the entire investigative files of numerous individuals whom the President has chosen as his senior advisors, as I have explained in multiple previous letters, it is clearly established as a matter of law that the decision to grant or deny a security clearance is a discretionary function that belongs exclusively to the Executive Branch.

– Pat Cipollone

Found on CNN
5 years ago

There has been some misunderstanding of the new rule and I would point out that it is designed to prevent any opportunity for the caddie to stand behind the player as he begins to take his stance, we appreciate it was a very unfortunate situation yesterday and I completely understand Keith Pelley's concerns... but there is no discretionary element to the rule precisely so that it is easier to understand and can be applied consistently.

– Martin Slumbers

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

It's not only the church -- it's also the broader community, the Minister for Migration could solve( the situation) in one day -- by using The Minister for Migration discretionary powers. There is a solution.

– Martine Goeman

Found on CNN
5 years ago

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