Carl Tannenbaum
Carl Tannenbaum
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The pool of available labor is diminishing and worker efficiency is growing more slowly. This adds up to a higher level of pressure on wages, and, by inference, on inflation.
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They're obviously very close to being done with that long string of tightening.
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The new chairman, undoubtedly, is going to be someone that the administration is comfortable with, but I think the new chairman should take the step early on of showing that they are going to remain independent-minded.
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Even with zero-percent financing, monthly payments for SUVs are still high, ... Consumers being willing to pay that much makes a positive statement about their sense of financial well-being.
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If anything, we may be at risk for underestimating how well the economy will do this year.
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After all the negative news about our trade position, our fiscal problems, our currency, our inflation rate and the Fed's credit-tightening program, long-term rates remain very, very low.
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It's a big surprise and another puzzle for economists to try to figure out.
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It has surprised all of us that the economy has performed so strongly, but we think that the accumulated influence of higher rates both in the market and by the Fed will begin to take a little bit of starch out of the economy.
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Hiring was cautious in October. Aside from companies not being able to operate because of the hurricanes, many businesses might have been in a state of suspense as they assessed damage to their operations and to the economy that might have resulted from these storms.
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The survey was taken in a dark week immediately after Katrina. The images (in the media) were of the type that don't makes us confident about anything.
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In the thinking of most analysts, based on the fundamentals, there certainly is enough out there that the Fed should keep going, at least at this meeting.
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Eighteen years of excellence has earned Greenspan the benefit of the doubt when blame is being allocated.
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Households and corporations are still very active and are creating economic momentum, which is tremendously encouraging news for the economy. The only dark cloud comes from the news on prices, which are going up.
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Foreclosure depresses an area in a variety of ways.