Mark Zandi Growing Quotations

The work force is growing not because employers are hiring a lot of new workers to staff expanding operations. The economy, in other words, is not being driven by businesses out there scouring for opportunity and revenue growth and pushing up wages as they compete to hire more workers.

The Fed is growing more uncomfortable about inflation, ... This is a more hawkish statement and signals that more tightening is on the way.

Inflation is still low and modest, but there are growing signs that it is starting to pick up.

There is a banking adage that if it's growing like a weed, it's a good chance that it's a weed.

It's better than it was but it's not as good as anywhere else. There are growing pockets of strength. Chicago, Kansas City, Minneapolis -- these are economies that had been severely depressed a few years ago and are now making their way back.

Most likely the higher prices will slow growth, ... But there is the growing threat that we get a combination of slower growth and higher inflation.