Joshua Feinman
Joshua Feinman
Joshua "Josh" Feinmanis an American film and television actor with appearances in Men of Honor, Transformers, and Mr. Woodcock...
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They are a bit more sanguine about inflation than the market has been, and they've been trying to tell people that. It doesn't mean they have their head stuck in the sand. With the last sentence of their statement, they leave themselves plenty of flexibility.
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The irony is that in the 1970s and 1980s, we were trying to get to that world again. We're darn close to price stability now.
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It's still meaningful -- it's a sector that accounts for a lot of swings in activity.
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The administration is likely to push for more fiscal stimulus, and this makes it a little more clear-cut, because O'Neill had been hesitant about that.
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They will convey more or less the same message -- that the economy is looking better, but nothing that would convey the notion that they're going to be moving rates any time soon.
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These numbers were worse than expected. But overall, the labor market is still deteriorating, but not at the rate it was after Sept. 11.
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The labor market's starting to improve a bit -- it's not great, but it's getting better.
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We've been talking for a long time about capital spending growth being a key component of the sustainability of this recovery. You have to be encouraged about what we've seen.
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To keep these tax cuts permanent, even if it means somewhat faster GDP growth -- and that's debatable -- will mean the government gets a smaller tax take as a percentage of GDP. Then spending has to be a smaller share, too. We have to have some plan.
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You have to look at these numbers over a few months. Coming in, we had several months of very substantial gains, ... The basic picture is that business spending is bottoming and showing some signs of improvement, but it's not really robust.
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As the national economy gets better, California will get better, and some of its problems will be less acute.
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Did firms have trouble making profits back in the 1950s and 1960s? ... No -- they were used to a low-inflation environment, and the cost side was used to that, and workers' expectations about wages were more attuned to that.
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The United States has been the engine of global growth for some time. It would behoove the world if other engines were to develop, but it doesn't look like that's happening. As long as that's the case, U.S. growth will mostly be determined by what happens here.
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Companies have the wherewithal to pick up the pace of hiring and capital investment again, but I'm not sure they have the desire, for a variety of reasons -- including their outlook on future demand.