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The labor force is very flexible. If wages go up, it may suck all these workers back in.

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This report just puts together all the news that people had been looking at for the last several weeks. The Fed is going to do what it takes because they fear that maybe growth in the first quarter is close to zero.

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It's really picking up half of labor pay.

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These long-run worries, there's an element of truth to them, but I think frankly the fears are exaggerated.

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The only really new proposal in the 2003 initiative was the proposal to lower the tax on dividend income and capital gains, and it costs something like 20 billion to 25 billion a year, which is really trivial.

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If we get another jobs report as weak as this, there's no way the Fed will hike in September.

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This sounds like a good idea. It does make sense in much of the world.

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Two things every American knows the price at the gas pump and their house story. We all sense there is a shift in the market . . . from a seller's market to a buyer's market. We'll see more in the data in the coming months that will confirm what we all know.

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Skeptics will point to other waves of innovations in the past, but things are happening at lightning speed here. Two years ago no one knew what 'dot com' was.

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The extraordinary events of the time make a person. He'll be bigger than life because of that.

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The alternative to a stimulus package could be worse. If the economy flounders, then there's a loss of revenue, worsening the budget situation -- it could even be worse than the measures you take in the short run to fix the economy.

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I really think the economic issue is going to play well for the President because we're getting the kind of growth that will create jobs.

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It's reasonable for investors to be concerned with inflation, given six months ago we were talking about deflation. What we're seeing is the purchasing managers are telling us that the costs of some materials are going up. The question is, can it be passed on to consumers

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When you're an economist trained in conceptual stuff, you tend to be less intuitive. You fall back on this conceptual framework that the profession has invested a lot of time in.

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I think they'll just do 50 (basis points), and leave in their statement it open-ended because the market is already anticipating a fair amount more easing by the Fed anyway, ... We'll hear more in Mr. Greenspan's testimony (before Congress) in February about what they plan to do.

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I get the feeling that the economy was really wanting to move ahead more quickly last year, then hit a bunch of speed bumps. I get the feeling companies are ready to start building their businesses and do lot of what normally happens in an expansion.

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I think he'll leave it the targets at the door. The real world is more unpredictable and uncertain than the idealized world that academics push for.

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My guess is there will be a bigger stimulus package in the months ahead -- more than 50 billion -- in response to frustration they can't get the economy moving faster.

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the long-run budget impact, despite all the screaming and hand-wringing about this...is really very small, very modest.

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Most of the (economic) numbers have been decent, but people just can't have a positive view on the economic trends til they can see the other side of these Middle East developments.

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Central banks having lived through that era where inflation went up ... are not inclined to make excuses if inflation goes up again.

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The thought of oil as a tax doesn't sit right with me. It may be a tax on consumers but it's a plus for producers, ... If you follow the money, my loss is someone else's gain and what starts out as a tax quickly becomes a more balanced picture.

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This is adding to the evidence that the economy is going to pick up and I think that we're going to keep seeing a better job picture.

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The squeeze on consumers is building. Retailers and other folks who deal with the customer are going to feel the customer's pain this fall and Christmas season. We'll be going through a short period of slow growth.

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Inflation springs from how intensely resources are used. There is an enormous amount of unused capacity sitting out there, and it takes a lot of growth to absorb that.

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