175 ordspråk av Robert Brusca
Robert Brusca
This refunding went really poorly. People still have nagging concerns,
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This refunding went really poorly. People still have nagging concerns.
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This shows the Fed rate cut was really quite needed, ... and would probably suggest the Fed might have more work to do to hold things together.
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Those two things could come into collision, and cause you to get faster hiring in the first part of the year, then have it catches up with you later,
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To me, the concern right now is that holiday shopping has been spotty . We had a great Black Friday , the week after that was miserable and then sales ticked up again after that,
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Trends show a sharp surge on auto spending in July but little strength elsewhere, ... Most disturbing is the ongoing sluggishness for services. Demand there is hovering around (annual) gains of 2 percent. That won't create many jobs.
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Trends show a sharp surge on auto spending in July but little strength elsewhere. Most disturbing is the ongoing sluggishness for services. Demand there is hovering around (annual) gains of 2 percent. That won't create many jobs.
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Two of the three recent months are above the midpoint line that divides the average layoff performance in recessions from normal layoff periods. This suggests the job market is getting to be more like it is in bad times than in good times,
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Wal-Mart still has good prices for 11 months of the year. Consumers won't damn them for one slippage in November, ... But Wal-Mart has some fierce and desperate competitors forming alliances.
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We are coming off strong numbers, and I don't think we would want to say bad things about the housing market on the basis of these numbers alone.
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We can't pump out jobs at the rate of 300,000 a month. Numbers as high as even 200,000 a month, they're even too much.
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We continue to see Federal Reserve officials saying they want the economy to grow as fast as it can, but they're the ones who determine where that speed limit is.
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We had expected a small braking, a minor tap on the pedal, from GDP growth but not a move down to a lower gear,
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We had expected a small braking, a minor tap on the pedal, from GDP growth but not a move down to a lower gear.
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We have a lot of things suggesting that maybe things have improved, ... I don't see any reason to go against the numbers.
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