14 Quotes by Steve Cochrane

This is not a home run. But it's pretty steady growth over the last six or seven months. If nothing else, it's a stable rate of growth that San Jose hasn't seen this in a long time.

It sounds like it's too soon to write the obituary on the housing market. There's not enough clear evidence.

The biggest impact clearly is local, not national. If New Orleans suffers a fair amount of damage to hotels and casinos, people may not go there for a while because who wants to go if the place is a mess?

These January numbers are strong. The fact that the number of unemployed persons is down to 7,400, on a seasonally adjusted basis, must be a new cyclical low. It?s pretty remarkable that so few people are unemployed in the county.

The first half of 2005 was a bit slower in terms of retail sales but the pace picked up in the second half.