Bruce Steinberg
Bruce Steinberg
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The economy was moving like a rocket in the first quarter. GDP probably rose at a 4.5 percent rate. It's a little faster than I thought earlier, primarily because even though demand was enormously strong in the first quarter, there was actually a pretty considerable case of inventory building.
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The economy remains weak, but hints of stabilization are emerging.
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The economy is still going very, very strong. I think in October the Fed will take a pass, what they do after that remains to be seen.
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The economy is on the verge of recovery but the recession has not quite loosened its grip yet.
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The complete lack of inflation puts the Fed in a bind. Recent remarks by Fed officials make it seem that they are hell-bent on tightening. But there is not much of a rationale that comes out of recent data.
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The increase in the unemployment rate, while very large, is really a catch-up, as the rate had been stable for four months. This brings the unemployment rate to where we believe it should be at this point.
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The manufacturing sector is still shrinking but at a much slower pace than earlier in the year.
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These problems have begun to improve, but they're far from resolved in terms of problems. So the Federal Reserve has got to keep moving.
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This is a great PPI number. We have literally no wholesale inflation in the U.S. economy. The PPI went down, the core PPI was unchanged, and over the past year wholesale prices measured by the core PPI are barely up at all.