David Wyss
David Wyss
David Wyss is an American economist. As New York-based Standard & Poor's chief economist, Wyss was responsible for S & P's economic forecasts and publications. He also coauthored the monthly Equity Insight and the weekly Financial Notes. He was on the board of the National Association for Business Economics, Washington, D.C...
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Natural gas is definitely a problem. If we have a mild to normal winter, we are OK. But if we have a colder winter than normal, we just don't have enough natural gas.
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We might have a lower unemployment rate and a somewhat lower gross domestic product, but it wouldn't be a huge impact.
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Politically, I wouldn't raise rates on the 20th. Raising rates when you are trying to recover from a disaster like this is sending the wrong message.
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The second quarter is shaping up to be stronger than expected.
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People see energy prices going up and they get a little worried about what they can afford to spend money on.
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Energy is the big wild card. We just don't know where prices will be. It will be a question of how fast oil refineries and oil pipelines comes back.
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Even a Chrysler has some imported parts in it and because these Toyotas are a little more expensive, Ford might be charging more.
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After September, it was positive for most of the economy except for tourism. Things like car sales came back very quickly. GM and Ford got really scared about sales so they cut prices.
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This may mean less change in the Fed statement on Tuesday, and increases the chances of a rate hike in March.
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Your next European vacation is going to cost a lot more, and you're going to see lot more European tourists running around New York.
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Your guess on where oil prices are going to go is as good as mine. It just depends on the Middle East and who knows what is going to happen there.
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This is the continuing story of the rich getting richer. Clearly, the gains in wealth are going to the top end.
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Somebody was going to have to slow the (U.S.) economy down and Asia is now doing the Fed's work for it.
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The bottom line is that we had a very strong quarter of growth.