Diane Swonk
Diane Swonk
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The retail sales and industrial production numbers could be better than people expect.
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These testimonies are to shape people's expectation of future moves. If you're not sure where you are going then why change it?
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Once they got the uncertainty of Katrina out of the way they just got back to their boilerplate statement,
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Once they get that debt paid off, it's just free cash flow.
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Not only are retailers doing more with less, like every other large corporation, and taking advantage of six fewer days in the shopping season, but they are actually hiring less this holiday shopping season, so there's fewer people on the floors actually helping consumers out.
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By the end of the year, there will be some builders with some overhang of construction relative to demand, ... Now's the time when you'd hope everybody cools off a bit and moderates their building, but that's not human nature -- and it's not the way for homebuilders to make money in the near term.
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The Fed doesn't want to be dealing with the old economy, with deficits returning. They're trying to have some impact on decisions made now without getting us into permanent problems.
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The consumer is not about to die on us, but let's face it, it's time for them to give a little slack to the business sector.
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In the aftermath of Katrina, the effect on the labor market from the fallout has been limited.
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The effect of the strike will be to short-circuit momentum in the U.S. economy, but we are well positioned to absorb it,
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The DVD burner, plasma screen TVs, digital cameras are the hot picks.
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The longer this goes on ... the more closely it resembles the inflationary push that we saw in the latter part of the 1960s.
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There's no question that the Detroit-based automotive sector has become our region's Achilles' heel.