Steve Stanley
Steve Stanley
Steve Stanleyis an American music historian, reissue producer, and the founder of Now Sounds, a reissue record label established in 2007 and distributed by Cherry Red Records. Steve has produced reissues of albums by The Association, Janis Ian, The Cowsills, The Mamas & The Papas, The Knack, Ruthann Friedman, Donna Loren, Roger Nichols, Paul Williams, and Tiny Tim, among others. Prior to establishing Now Sounds, Stanley was hired by Bob Keane and co-produced reissues for Del-Fi Records. He later produced...
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The bottom line is that, with employment and income gains picking up, it will take mortgage rates a lot higher than 6.24 percent to choke off housing demand. We will probably get to a level of rates that bites eventually, but certainly not in the next few months.
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Once we get a few strong payroll gains, the tightening cycle will commence. That could be three months away or another year away. No one, including Greenspan, knows the timeframe; but make no mistake, tightening is coming sooner or later.
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Once we get a few strong payroll gains, the tightening cycle will commence, ... That could be three months away or another year away. No one, including Greenspan, knows the timeframe; but make no mistake, tightening is coming sooner or later.
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I do not view the upside surprise as being terribly significant. There were very few areas of concern within the core.
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While many will be disappointed that we will not necessarily see huge upward revisions to payrolls ... a significant upward revision to wages would also be a positive development, as it suggests that consumers have more firepower than we thought.
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This raises the odds that manufacturing payrolls may finally break through on Friday and register a gain.
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Our goal is to NOT have that become a retail center.
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Just because people were extremely concerned in the first days after Katrina hit does not mean that spending has fallen apart. Indeed, the weekly chain store sales results suggest that the impact so far has been surprisingly modest.
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We continue to believe that the Fed will keep tightening into 2006 and take the funds rate above 5 pct next year.
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While concerns about the impact of rising interest rates will be a frequent theme of discussion in the press and financial markets, homebuilders and realtors are confident that favorable demographics and an improved economy/job market should help, at least for a while, to compensate for the dampening effect of the upturn in borrowing costs on housing demand,
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Without a doubt, the decline mainly reflects the run-up in gasoline prices.
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At the same time, notwithstanding the lack of job creation, the economy is generally strong.
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The Fed may need to prove its inflation-fighting credentials because expectations could be shifting a bit. The case for continued rate hikes has become, if anything, more compelling since Katrina,
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The core consumer price index (CPI) has risen by 3.3 percent annualized over the past three months, ... We'd all better hope that some of this is 'transitory.'