187 ordspråk av Mark Zandi
Mark Zandi
It's not a question of whether businesses can expand; it is a question of their willingness.
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It's similar to asking a big part of the labor force to leave. In today's economy where the job market is at capacity, asking people to leave means the economy will not grow as fast. In fact, there could be a very difficult adjustment over the first three to four years when this process is in full swing.
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Katrina is going to muck things up; it's just a question to what degree.
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Labor will start demanding bigger pay increases and will get them.
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Most likely the higher prices will slow growth, ... But there is the growing threat that we get a combination of slower growth and higher inflation.
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Most of the loans are concentrated in the most juiced-up markets across the country.
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My sense is, there will be more inflationary pressures going forward.
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Of the 2.7 million jobs lost since employment's peak, roughly a third have been lost to overseas competition, and most if not all of those jobs are not coming back, ... And that trend is going to continue.
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On the national level, I think you'll see weakness in jobs figures for September, October and maybe even November.
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Once skittish businesses are turning into confident businesses that are willing and able to hire. I think the job market will improve further in the course of the coming year.
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One of the things voters will have to sort out is which statistic matters more.
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Part of the problem that all of tech is having with respect to jobs is they significantly over-hired during the boom times and to some degree the past few years has been payback for overaggressive hiring, ... But I think that process is largely over and we should see slightly better job growth in tech by this time next year.
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Part of the problem that all of tech is having with respect to jobs is they significantly over-hired during the boom times and to some degree the past few years has been payback for overaggressive hiring. But I think that process is largely over and we should see slightly better job growth in tech by this time next year.
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People are able to pull money out of their homes and put it into their gas tanks. So the overall effects on consumer spending have been small.
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People are responding to the escalating prices: They're moving.
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