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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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.
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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.
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Things have been pretty difficult here. If it goes well, it's something the city can feel good about.
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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.
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This is a crystal clear indication that the labor markets are very healthy and it reinforces the notion that the economy is growing in a healthy, sustainable way.
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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.
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This deal gives GM a better shot at returning to profitability and generating bonuses for line workers and their salaried workers. What we should all be rooting for, no matter where we work, is that the Michigan-based auto sector becomes more competitive and more profitable.
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There's no question the Michigan economy and Detroit metro economy have been lagging because of continued exposure to the auto sector.
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Affordability has deteriorated over the past year because consumers are buying more expensive cars, financing a larger portion of those purchases and paying higher interest rates on car loans.
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Deflation is not a risk the Fed should take, ... If you ask me, should they ease, yes they should.
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The market has been extraordinarily complacent, viewing central bankers only as buyers although they're also sellers.
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If he's true to that perspective, I think we're going to find that monetary policy looks an awful lot like it did under Greenspan for the next several years.
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The easy part of the tightening cycle is behind us now and so you're at the point where more judgement is required.
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The industrial production data ... was sort of a sober warning about the softness in the industrial sector of our economy.