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...
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The Federal Reserve will be meeting on Sept. 30. It will be an easy decision to leave policy unchanged. There is no sign of accelerating inflation, and there are arguments and evidence that growth is in the process of slowing somewhat.
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I'm glad I got to know him a little even if he wasn't aware I was around, ... He went out with a whole lot of love.
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Campus climate is getting better, but it can always be improved,
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I'm looking for an unexciting kind of year; not unlike the one we're just ending.
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It's clearly a reflection of how much more the Japanese companies have tended to be more profitable in recent years.
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It's certainly a concerning reading. Most of what we are seeing there is the impact of higher natural gas and other energy prices.
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It looks like another good year for California. Housing prices have got to slow down.
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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.
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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,
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They're a little disappointing if you're looking for a strong labor market, but nothing dramatic.
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There's excruciatingly slow improvement in the labor market and no reason for the Fed to withdraw any of its accommodation, given the lack of job growth.
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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.
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Everybody's seeing the loss of the income and people are spending cautiously wherever they can.