As we were still in the process of assessing Katrina’s impact on the economy, Hurricane Rita appears, stirring new worries of oil supply shortage in the United States.

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You know what’s truly weird about any financial crisis? We made it up. Currency, money, finance, they’re all social inventions. When the sun comes up in the morning it’s shining on the same physical landscape,...

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Rate hikes bite different sectors of the economy at different rates. For example, one of the key areas that was hit hard and appears to be slowing down is housing. Consumer spending will take some...

In recent years, the U.S. economy has consistently outperformed expectations,

The president is concerned about the economy, particularly after September 11th, and the effect that airline strikes would have on the economy, and on the ability of the public to travel at this time,

Reliability investing requires finding companies trading below their inherent worth–stocks with strong fundamentals including earnings, dividends, book value, and cash flow selling at bargain prices give their quality.

Multinationals in today’s environment have gotten bigger, and hence their hurdle rate for a site to be economic has risen. Indonesia doesn’t offer that as much as it used to.

New Orleans did not have a robust economy to begin with. I think it’s going to be very difficult for New Orleans to truly come back. It will take years,

If you factor in a slowing economy the number would be larger. The ultimate decider of whether you can make your mortgage payment or not is your job.

The economy has got out of its soft patch,

The background news is favorable for the euro. The euro zone economy is bouncing back and the U.S. economy is slowing.

What’s new about the global economy is First World productivity combined with Third World wages. That can create some real downward pressure on high-wage countries.

If unemployment continues to decline and the economy grows at an above-average pace … I think they (the Fed) will be a little more concerned about bottlenecks.

recession.” No matter how many millions of jobs are lost, how much debt our country accrues, or how many years the stagnation drags on, it’s not a depression until the dogmatic media officially declares it...

I get the feeling that the economy was really wanting to move ahead more quickly last year, then hit a bunch of speed bumps. I get the feeling companies are ready to start building their...

I don’t expect this economy to show any signs of slowing down. One of the strategists a couple of years ago alluded to the battleship — you don’t stop this battleship in mid-water unless you...

Those are two areas of the economy that should be perking up right now if we were in a recovery mode, … Normally, businesses hire temp workers and work their employees longer — this drop...

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.

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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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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...

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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.