The two-month decline in the index suggests that the already-weak economy is likely to remain weak into next year. |
The underlying story here is that we have this strong job growth, ... if we continue to have strong job growth - and I think we will - then we will continue to see those wage levels push up. |
There are a lot of factors here, but more than anything else, we haven't had a full jobs recovery, and the consumer is waiting for that. These numbers reflect they're kind of running out of patience. |
There was cautious optimism a month ago that manufacturing declines might have been bottoming out, ... Now, in the wake of the attacks, economic demand seems likely to slow. |
There was cautious optimism a month ago that manufacturing declines might have been bottoming out. Now, in the wake of the attacks, economic demand seems likely to slow. |
There's no sign that spending is going to take off, but there's also nothing to show that consumers, finished with back to school spending, are going to put their hands back in their pockets and leave them there. |
There's nothing wrong with the economy right now. That's not the issue, |
These are very different circumstances from September. This [reading] has a bigger component in terms of the stock market -- if the stock market hadn't fallen so much in July, the drop in the index would have only been 0.1 percent. |
These data suggest the post-holiday labor market will remain relatively soft -- probably delivering a little less than 200,000 new jobs a month on average. |
They're saying the economy stinks this summer, for whatever reason, but their anticipation is that it will turn for the better. |
This could be a signal that the economy will continue to expand this spring before slowing later in the year. |
This is a jab, it's not a haymaker, ... What we see here in March is probably the end of it. |
This is confirming the idea that, while the stock market's not in good shape, the overall economy's not in bad shape; it's nowhere near going into a double dip. |
This is not a party-line vote, either. Groups on the left and the right are joined together in fighting this attack on the first amendment. |
This was a combination of both bad weather and the timing of when Easter fell, so it made the earlier period look better and this period look worse, ... When you wash [these effects] out, you essentially get the signal that consumption is not going like gangbusters, but at least it's reasonably strong. |