The case for lower interest rates is a strong one, ... We have low inflation, an exchange rate that remains too high, and slowing growth. Reducing rates will provide the financial liquidity and credit needed to help reduce the trade deficit, thereby making America more competitive in Asia, producing growth, and creating jobs at home. |
The current manufacturing recession that began in the latter half of 2000 is chiefly due to the combined effects of excessively high interest rates, high energy prices, the over-valued dollar and increased regulatory and legal costs, |
The likelihood of slower business growth should help dampen the Fed's concern about an overheated economy and quell talk of a hike in interest rates, |
The prospect of deflation is one that sends shudders through financial markets. |
The survey findings reflect the growing trend toward incentive compensation programs as a way for employers to share the wealth with workers, ... Roughly 80 percent of those surveyed offer bonus programs and 401(k) or profit-sharing plans . . . as they compete for the best and brightest workforce. |
The Y2K issue is a serious problem not only for the government and larger companies, but especially for smaller manufacturers who often don't have the necessary resources on-site to address this technological challenge, ... We will continue to raise awareness among our membership about this critical challenge. |
This is the first time that all of these sectors had positive orders in at least three months and is the first sign that a broad-based turnaround in the manufacturing sector may be beginning to form, |
This is the most optimistic manufacturing survey we've seen in some time. |
We expect that manufacturing will maintain a 6 percent rate of growth in 2004 and actually grow faster than the overall economy for the first time in four years. |
We give him great credit for raising the priority for education and training. On the other hand, he really did so many things to stick it in the corporate eye, whether or not it was downsizing or siding with the unions in the last two years of the administration, |
We give him great credit for raising the priority for education and training. On the other hand, he really did so many things to stick it in the corporate eye, whether or not it was downsizing or siding with the unions in the last two years of the administration. |
You can suggest that certain parts of it you may do differently or put more money into ... but all of it is a substantial investment and a major additional support. |