The economy suffered significant shocks in late summer and early autumn, |
The effects of the present merger wave are yet to be determined, ... But, unless a relationship between bigness and market concentration can be more firmly rooted in anti-competitive behavior, bigness, per se, does not appear to be an issue for national economic policy. |
The evidence we have to date as of yet shows no evidence of stabilization, |
The extent and pace of recovery of Asian economies currently experiencing a severe downturn will have important ramifications for prices of energy and other commodities, the strength of the dollar, and competitive conditions on world product markets, |
The fact of the matter is, we do not have an unlimited amount of labor, ... the wealth effect cannot persist indefinitely. |
The Fact that our economical models at The Fed, the best in the world, have been wrong for fourteen straight quarters, does not mean they will not be right in the fifteenth quarter |
The fear of job obsolescence, |
The Fed is struggling to find a firmer standard of monetary policy, ... The focus on asset prices has become an increasing issue of debate at the Fed. |
The Federal Reserve Bank of New York's efforts were designed solely to enhance the probability of an orderly private-sector adjustment, ... No Federal Reserve funds were put at risk, no promises were made by the Federal Reserve and no individual firms were pressured to participate. |
The Federal Reserve has been unable to find any credible purpose for the huge balance sheets built by Fannie and Freddie other than the creation of profit through the exploitation of the market-granted subsidy, |
The Federal Reserve has responded to the balance of market forces by gradually raising the federal funds rate over the past year, ... Certainly, to have done otherwise -- to have held the federal funds rate at last year's level even as credit demands and market interest rates rose -- would have required an inappropriately inflationary expansion of liquidity. |
The Federal Reserve, myself in particular, find the general thrust of the deputy secretary's remarks very close to ours. |
The fundamentals are in place for a return to sustained healthy growth, |
The good news is that evidence is becoming more persuasive that our electronic infrastructure will be ready for the Century Date Change, ... The public's understanding of the degree of our Y2K readiness also has grown, and fears of widespread disruptions around the CDC appear to be waning, though we are not as yet home free. |
The growing stability of the world economy over the past decade may have encouraged investors to accept increasingly lower levels of compensation for risk. |