Stephen Roach
Stephen Roach
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I think there's every reason to believe that another jobless recovery could be in the offing in the years immediately ahead -- one that would take a comparable toll on consumer demand.
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It's important to stay focused on the interplay between the consumer and the overextended housing market and sharp increases in energy prices, ... That will be key as to whether or not the US economy will sustain itself in 2006.
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The vulnerability of the over-extended American consumer can hardly be taken lightly. That could well be a big problem for the rest of a US-centric global economy.
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Consumers have stagnant real wages and they are getting hit with the shocks of higher energy prices. This is not a good combination for the overstretched consumer.
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The recession is not over. We will probably have a 'double dip,' another downturn, by spring.
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There is a dangerous degree of complacency, and out of that comes a surprise that does the most damage to the global economy.
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Why should the victim who has never received a dime sit back while the civil rights violator gets his job and back pay?
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We are shifting to an outright recession scenario in the United States, and, in response, we are slashing our forecast of the global economy for 2001,
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To the extent that hiring in high-wage, developed economies continues to lag, the sustainability of any impetus to private consumption can be drawn into serious question.
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To the extent such a payback is likely after the current spending burst, it could act as a sharp depressant on overall demand growth in subsequent quarters, ... That development, in the context of a lingering jobless recovery, could raise serious questions about the staying power of America's current cyclical resurgence.
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With global trade screeching to such a standstill, so, too, should the external demand contributions of most major economies around the world,
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As the prospects of a full-blown oil shock rise, the prospects of outright global recession in 2005 loom more and more likely.
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Borrowing from physics, the last thing an unstable system needs is a shock. And yet the risks of just such a disturbance have never seemed higher. Far-fetched as it seems, the possibility of a more perilous endgame is rising.
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I do not think that China is going to run the risk of accelerating its pace of opening up its capital markets because of adverse consequences in the global economy.