For most Americans, economic growth is a spectator sport.

The fact is that the economy is really posed for the kind of recovery that people can see and understand.

The economy was firing on almost all cylinders. It is continuing to show the resilience we’ve seen time and time again.

The existing home sales data revived fears over the prospect of the US economy, especially about the future outlook for US consumer spending.

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There seems to be those who believe that there are more and more signs that the economy is shaking off its slump,

From now to the first semester of 2006, our economy is still bumpy, thus the monetary sector would still be tight. After the first semester of 2006, the economy will start moving. We will see...

I think all these reports taken together are going to paint an economy that is too hot. Labor costs are rising and that is beginning to lead to some signs of inflation.

We’re all going to be looking for the employment rate and looking for that corroboration of this economy slowing, but the picture is ultimately confusing, … You’ve got earnings slowing to the point where it’s...

The great fault of modern democracy — a fault that is common to the capitalist and the socialist — is that it accepts economic wealth as the end of society and the standard of personal...

Those jobs look fairly good going into 2006. We won’t see a lot of hiring there, but the economy looks strong enough to maintain level of employment we have.

The interesting thing is we’ve just had negative growth, the economy shrank in the fourth quarter of last year and it doesn’t look like it’s going to grow much in the first quarter of this...

Small businesses are the backbone of our economy.

Overall, fourth-quarter earnings growth will be weak because the economy has slowed much faster than people had expected.

Previous governments, particularly the one before I took over, mismanaged the economy quite badly.

It’s not a big drop. It’s reflecting the fact that the economy has improved this year, but not enough that consumers are convinced things are sufficiently better.

A part-time worker is fully employed, half the time. In other words, they are part-time unemployees.

A positive outlook on the economy is boosting cyclical stocks today, and sectors like real estate are being bought.

The employment report caused investors to reassess economics.

There’s uncertainty with the impact of higher interest rates as to whether it will slow the economy down, and I feel that it won’t, and thus we’ll have even higher interest rates.

If the economy roars back, you can always take the cuts back. But suppose you’re wrong on the other side, and the economy continues to languish? With the slack already in the markets, inflation is...

The not-too-hot, not-too-cold ‘Goldilocks’ economy envisaged by many economists could turn out to be a mirage.

Henry Ford was right. A prosperous economy requires that workers be able to buy the products that they produce. This is as true in a global economy as a national one.

People’s outlook for the economy changes much faster than the underlying state of the economy. The Fed tries to keep its eye on the larger ball and not on the ping-pong ball of the stock...

Changes in the economy are relatively slow to hit the man in the street.

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The February drop in retail sales is not a sign that the economy is losing momentum. It is simply a payback for extraordinary numbers in January.

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In recent years a smaller share of young adults has been employed than at any time since the Bureau of Labor Statistics started tracking such trends in 1948. So it’s not surprising that this generation...

I guess what people are worried about is that the U.S. economy is growing fast enough that inflation is going to become a problem.

The individualist insists that drastic depressions are the result of credit inflation; (not excessive savings, as the Keynesians would have it) which at all times in history has been caused by direct government action or...

If you want to really help the economy right away, the fastest way to do that is to have the government spend the money itself, … The next step would be to give tax cuts...

We’ve gone from a psychology a month and a half ago that the economy is growing too quickly, and the Fed is going to have to raise rates, to we’re going to go towards a...

People who were really slashing third-quarter GDP forecasts might need to rethink. The economy was more resilient than people thought. It supports the thesis that the Fed will raise rates in September at least,

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Turkey is widely envied while there are very serious troubles in the world economy.

Our destinies are absolutely intertwined. Africa is absolutely fundamental for the South African economy.

As a sector, technology will provide earnings growth irrespective of the economy slowing to a point that would impact other companies that are sensitive to the economy one way or the other.

State revenue is growing, the economy is growing, and we have leadership that knows the importance of transit.

Banks are concerned the central bank is imposing too many regulations. If the trend continues, we’ll swing to heavy regulation. We need to have balanced regulation to encourage the economy.

Is it a slow-growth economy?

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The Japanese economy seems to be stagnating versus rapid growth in China, but its growth is ready to take off. Japan is coming out of deflation.

The world economy is growing at an above average pace for the fourth successive year and, significantly, forecasts have been revised upwards.

Based on our sense of positioning, excessively bearish sentiment, and risks that the economy does not slow as rapidly as hoped, we see greater upside potential for New Zealand dollar than further downside in the...

Sales of seemingly small items such as binoculars and bird seed are becoming a major force in the nation’s economy as people take a greater interest in watching wildlife.

The real question is: How sturdy and solid is the floor our civilization stands on? How many lives with no prospects, shattered and senseless, can it bear the weight of before it cracks somewhere or...

After September, it was positive for most of the economy except for tourism. Things like car sales came back very quickly. GM and Ford got really scared about sales so they cut prices.

If the economy is as strong as the Fed is worried about, that’s going to mean better corporate earnings.