Robert Brusca
Robert Brusca
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But even if you have a weak number next month, even if you get zero growth, you'd be averaging about 150,000 new jobs a month (for the last six months.) So the Fed would need to see something less than zero to change its mind.
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I have no plans to do anything with it ? probably put it in the bank. I'm not going to change my spending habits.
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How could we have such a turnaround in job growth and have the Fed find that it doesn't change its assessment of risks in the economy whatsoever?
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I think we're going to have a slower recovery, ... There are other things that suggest there are limits to what the Fed can do.
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I think that one of the lessons in history is that if any party has too much control, the danger is that they will go overboard. The challenge for this administration is going to be to keep control of things.
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People are aware of what energy prices are doing to their pocketbooks, and their company,
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While everybody is very happy with the performance of the economy under Greenspan, it's come at quite a price. We have a negative savings rate. The consumer has been out spending his and her income, partly supported by an increase in housing prices, where people had to pull a lot of the equity out of their home. Well they can't do that again.
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While consumer spending has sparked up a bit recently, linking it to better output growth is still highly speculative.
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While concerns about inflation swirl, the evidence continues to give those fears little substance,
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We have a lot of things suggesting that maybe things have improved, ... I don't see any reason to go against the numbers.
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It doesn't tell you anything about the economy at this point. It just gives you some idea of the magnitude of the displacement in the affected area.
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There are so many low-paid people who are educated that education is simply not the answer. The answer is, you will be unemployed if this is not stopped.
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Where was wealth effect during that time? ... The consumer didn't die. People lost all kinds of money in the stock market, and it didn't seem to affect them.
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We continue to see Federal Reserve officials saying they want the economy to grow as fast as it can, but they're the ones who determine where that speed limit is.