Inflation may be dying but it's hardly dead and buried. The world's problems are starting to infect the U.S. and that's what's going to keep the Fed on hold. |
Right now, if you are running a business in Asia, you have to liquidate just about anything you can just to raise the cash to meet pay day, |
Some adjustment was certainly necessary, |
That $40,000-a-year family with two kids could really use that $1,600 to retire that credit card debt, make a down payment on a car, and that's what we really want to see happen, |
The budget surplus is $5.6 trillion. Two and a half trillion of that is put aside for Social Security and paying down the national debt, ... That leaves $3.1 trillion in surplus. That's after we've taken care of all existing spending. We're only asking that half of that, [$1.6 trillion] out of the $3.1 trillion, be used for tax cuts. |
The economic circumstances have changed, ... Fox News Sunday. |
The members of Congress who came up to meet with the president this week all said so, and they want to see an acceleration of the tax cut, and so does the president. |
The tax cut provides enough of a floor that we don't fall too far. We'll have a base from which to grow. |
The world's problems are starting to infect the U.S. economy, |
They should expect no more help from the White House, |
We have rising real incomes for households, leading to rising real consumption. That looks unlikely to be disrupted, |
We really did need an insurance policy, and we bought an insurance policy just in time. The test is going to be: Did we buy a big enough insurance policy? And we will know in the fourth quarter. |
We've got our fingers crossed. |
What we want to see is ... people get more money in their pockets sooner, ... There's some trouble out there, apparently, with the economy, and we want to see people have larger paychecks so that they can either pay down their debt (or) use it for some spending that they may want to do. |
What we want to see is ... people get more money in their pockets sooner, ... There's some trouble out there, apparently, with the economy, and we want to see people have larger paychecks so that they can either pay down their debt [or] use it for some spending that they may want to do. |