An efficient and effective guest worker program should be created in order to stop the incentive for illegal immigration into the U.S.. |
Business owners have a responsibility to ensure their workers are eligible to work in the U.S.. But 80 percent of our members are small business owners that build less than 25 homes a year. The government can't expect small business owners to handle this burden of policing and should take the role of making sure workers are documented. |
I think the majority of the Fed governors are going to realize that the boom in the stock market that we have had, the upward revision for employment growth, the strong income and savings rates are not something they are going to have to deal with for the July meeting. That will make it a lot easier for them to hold a steady policy stance. |
Investors are having to deal with the reality of lower corporate profits. And the stock market is starting to feel that impact. |
Investors are relieved that he's continuing the same tone and isn't changing things. |
It looks like the economic recovery there is the real McCoy. |
Oil shouldn't be trading above $65 a barrel. It constrains the whole market and only some energy utility shares benefit. |
The Chicago PMI helped, but the economy is doing better and we know the fourth-quarter will have some of the effect of the hurricane, but the market is ready to withstand that, |
The Chicago PMI helped, but the economy is doing better and we know the fourth-quarter will have some of the effect of the hurricane, but the market is ready to withstand that. |
The current system doesn't provide for enough visas. It's plagued with an enormous backlog and doesn't provide enough visa categories to support the U.S. economy's demand for workers. |
The equity market is going to begin focusing more on corporate earnings and may even focus on the positive benefits of a little bit of economic activity. |
The Fed is a little bit uncomfortable with that. |
The market is preparing for a pretty good bounce in employment. What that means, though, is some more concern about inflation as demand increases. |
The market probably did a reasonably good job anticipating this pickup in inflation. Investors are relieved there wasn't more pressure on core inflation. Unfortunately, we're probably going to see that pressure in the upcoming months. |
The sell-off in the bond markets, not only here, but in global bonds, is scaring a lot of investors. At the same time, we are seeing a rotation from some of last year's bigger gainers, such as the energy companies, and people are just taking profits on those big names. |