Dana Johnson
Dana Johnson
Dana Johnsonis an American writer and Associate Professor at the University of Southern California. Honors include the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction, and being named a nominee for the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award. Her writing has appeared in Callaloo, The Iowa Review, and elsewhere...
care economy gm health issues punch
To me, the one-two punch of the breakthrough of health care issues (with GM and the UAW) and this makes me feel better about the economy overall,
absolutely market next
The next two years are going to be a real watershed for them. They absolutely must demonstrate they can stabilize their market share, because cost-cutting is not enough.
across army army-and-navy broader concern country crude effects katrina oil people pouring price spreading
That probably overstates the impact, just think of the army of people pouring into that region, and you see people spreading out across the country and getting jobs; it won't continue, I don't think those bottlenecks and shortages will continue. The broader concern is we have crude oil over $60 a barrel, which is the price even before Katrina was named, and that will have long-term effects on the economy, and I think that's a distinction that should be made.
income loss people seeing spending wherever
Everybody's seeing the loss of the income and people are spending cautiously wherever they can.
good housing looks prices slow year
It looks like another good year for California. Housing prices have got to slow down.
calling clearly fed fourth further hike instead pushes quarter rate timing
It was a very disappointing report. It clearly pushes the timing of a Fed tightening further into the future. We're now calling for a Fed rate hike in the fourth quarter of 2004 instead of in August.
care caught faster five foster grow half nearly normal time year
They can grow five times faster than normal and by the time they've been in foster care for a year and a half they will nearly have caught up.
activity cause credit demands economy erratic interest large likely overall performing relatively smooth swings turn view
They view it that that is more likely to keep the overall economy performing in a relatively smooth way so that the seasonality - if there is any - in credit demands doesn't cause large swings in interest rates, which in turn cause activity to turn on and turn off in an erratic way.
clearly companies japanese profitable recent reflection
It's clearly a reflection of how much more the Japanese companies have tended to be more profitable in recent years.
certainly concerning energy gas higher impact natural seeing
It's certainly a concerning reading. Most of what we are seeing there is the impact of higher natural gas and other energy prices.
love mother peace waiting
I told him that I love him, that he was going to be in peace, that his mother was waiting for him,
I told him I was here, he didn't have to struggle, that he was going to see his mommy,
costs economy economy-and-economics energy evidence growth happens higher money
It's a little more evidence that growth in the economy has downshifted a bit, but that's what happens when higher energy costs take money from people's pockets.
asked auto industry painful people reality worth
The reality is that many other people working in the auto industry are going to be asked to make painful adjustments, too, and a lot of people are going to say it's not worth it.