Gail Fosler
Gail Fosler
cards confidence consumer few filling last number people responses weeks
Very few of the responses will have a post-attack impact, ... In the last two weeks people have ... been very distracted. Filling out response cards to consumer confidence surveys has not really been their number one priority.
borrowed indicative quarter second weakness
A lot of that was borrowed by the second quarter in the first quarter. I think it is indicative of weakness in the second quarter.
breathe cautious couple fairly looking market maybe numbers quiet sigh string strong
I think we are going to get a couple more quiet numbers. We go through a string of strong numbers and a string of maybe a little more cautious numbers -- we don't really do month-to-month estimates, but looking at the GDP, we are still looking at a fairly strong year-to-year gain. I think the market will breathe a little sigh of relief.