Steve Stanley
Steve Stanley
Steve Stanleyis an American music historian, reissue producer, and the founder of Now Sounds, a reissue record label established in 2007 and distributed by Cherry Red Records. Steve has produced reissues of albums by The Association, Janis Ian, The Cowsills, The Mamas & The Papas, The Knack, Ruthann Friedman, Donna Loren, Roger Nichols, Paul Williams, and Tiny Tim, among others. Prior to establishing Now Sounds, Stanley was hired by Bob Keane and co-produced reissues for Del-Fi Records. He later produced...
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This raises the odds that manufacturing payrolls may finally break through on Friday and register a gain.
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Just because people were extremely concerned in the first days after Katrina hit does not mean that spending has fallen apart. Indeed, the weekly chain store sales results suggest that the impact so far has been surprisingly modest.
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The bottom line is that, with employment and income gains picking up, it will take mortgage rates a lot higher than 6.24 percent to choke off housing demand. We will probably get to a level of rates that bites eventually, but certainly not in the next few months.
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Once we get a few strong payroll gains, the tightening cycle will commence. That could be three months away or another year away. No one, including Greenspan, knows the timeframe; but make no mistake, tightening is coming sooner or later.
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Once we get a few strong payroll gains, the tightening cycle will commence, ... That could be three months away or another year away. No one, including Greenspan, knows the timeframe; but make no mistake, tightening is coming sooner or later.
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That's not exactly an evaluation which would suggest that Friday's number will be a blowout to the upside.
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The Chairman (over the two days) was surprisingly hawkish, and we should be ready for rate hikes as soon as the data justify them.
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Our goal is to NOT have that become a retail center.
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The Fed may need to prove its inflation-fighting credentials because expectations could be shifting a bit. The case for continued rate hikes has become, if anything, more compelling since Katrina,
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The bottom line is that the housing sector, at least for now, is more than holding its own in the face of higher but not yet high mortgage rates,
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It is reassuring that the February drop in confidence appears to have been a one-off event rather than the beginning of a trend.
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The core consumer price index (CPI) has risen by 3.3 percent annualized over the past three months, ... We'd all better hope that some of this is 'transitory.'
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He tried as best as possible to stick to the Fed script and to avoid making waves.
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I do not view the upside surprise as being terribly significant. There were very few areas of concern within the core.