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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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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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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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 reminds me of the famous Sherlock Holmes mystery, where the dog that didn't bark was the key. It was what Greenspan didn't say more than what he did say that got the market excited. People were ready to hear a more upbeat reading on the economy than he gave.
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I don't think one 50 basis point move (by the Fed) is likely to be enough. It's going to be very hard for the stock market to move ahead. Profit margins are not going to be expanding. There's going to be nothing to offset the higher interest rates.
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With many investors drifting away early for the Thanksgiving holiday and with the fixed income markets scheduled to close early on Wednesday, the clear potential is for some erratic price action in illiquid markets,
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The unemployment rate on a month-to-month basis bounces around quite a lot. The trend is for a small downward drifting in the unemployment rate, reflecting as much people withdrawing from the labor market as anything else.
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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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I'm looking for an unexciting kind of year; not unlike the one we're just ending.
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Everybody's seeing the loss of the income and people are spending cautiously wherever they can.
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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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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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I'm working hard to sell this town. Just try to picture it without the tree.