Anthony Chan
Anthony Chan
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I think if you would have excluded the hurricanes, you would have been talking as much as 4.7 percent. I don't think anyone would argue 4.6 percent.
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It doesn't give support to a robust expansion, ... Expansion is coming, just not the garden-variety explosive economic expansion.
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When you listen to Greenspan's speech, you hear a fear about the sustainability of economic growth and no inflation pressures. Guess what that spells? Lower interest rates and postponing a return to higher rates, to insure the sustainability of growth.
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When you have a long road to travel, you don't take too many breaks. You just keep on going. We're one or two bad numbers away from reassessment of Fed policy, but we're not there yet. Yes, this number is weak, and yes, it's disappointing, but there are some rays of hope in here.
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When the economy is creating 200,000 new jobs a month, we can tolerate $65 to $70 a barrel oil. It masks the impact on consumer confidence.
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When the economy is booming and you want to hire new workers, you have to attract them with money. Today, all you have to offer is a job.
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When the economy hits rough spots, gridlock is not good.
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Unfortunately, I don't think it's a job for Alan Greenspan.
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To the extent that consumer sentiment reacts to movements in the unemployment rate rather than the meager increase in non-farm payrolls, we have to take this ... report as delivering good news to the troops.
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With a fall in the yearly rise in average hourly earnings, both investors and policy-makers can avoid pushing the panic button for a little while longer. In other words, while a (May interest rate hike) remains all but assured, this report did little to nail further tightening beyond this stage.
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We can't lose sight of the fact that energy restricts growth. It is doing so.
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The fact that U.S. officials cannot rule out further attacks will keep consumers here and abroad in a deeply uncertain state.
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The fact that unemployment is getting worse is not a surprise. But the fact that it's deteriorating at this pace is a surprise.
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We'll start seeing solid and significant evidence of recovery in the manufacturing sector in the first quarter next year. It was the first to go into recession and will be the first to come out.