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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A reasonable estimate is that an infant loses 1-2 IQ points per month and sustains predictable losses in growth as well as motor and language development between 4 and 24 months of age while living in an institutional environment.
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What we're spending our time debating is whether the Fed goes a quarter point or a half point.
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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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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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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.
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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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So far, I am encouraged to see how well the regional economy has weathered the job and income losses centered in the auto manufacturing sector. Mild winter weather and the Super Bowl no doubt helped to support the economy early in 2006. As those effects fade, I would expect to see some fall off in activity over the next several months.
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The Fed is more willing to balance risks in favor of growth than it was two years ago. They really don't want to be accused of anti-growth. They want to be seen as anti-inflation, and I don't think in that light they wanted to be seen as moving ahead of inflation reports that have not shown any acceleration.