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Consumers will have to curb their spending eventually, which would help to cool economic growth.

Cyclical stocks should really not do well if the economy is going to slow, and you can see, look at the cyclical components of the Dow, a stock like International Paper, Du Pont, all at multi-year lows. I really don't see much there, I would avoid them.

Currently, there is little or no overbuilding in any commercial real estate sector, and as the economy continues to grow and produce jobs, excess space is being absorbed, making occupancy rates rise. To build a building today costs materially more than six months ago or two years ago in most major cities.

critical infrastructure needs are vital to Pennsylvania's economy and homeland security.

Conventional wisdom may be upside-down. The economy is always an issue, but I think . . . it has to be viewed in different terms. The Gore camp will try to take credit for the economy. I don't think the voters see it that way.

Eminent domain is not the end, it is the means a tool the government uses for economic development.

Employment is likely to be much weaker going forward and the jobless rate will keep rising as the economy cools. Interest rates are on hold.

Employment growth will keep the economy going and the bond market will be susceptible to the strength of the data that will push the Fed to hike rates again. We expect yields to rise.

Employment growth is very healthy for the economy. Job and income gains will remain supportive for consumer activity.

Environmental scientists have been saying for some time that the global economy is being slowly undermined by environmental trends of human origin, including shrinking forests, expanding deserts, falling water tables, eroding soils, collapsing fisheries, rising temperatures, melting ice, rising seas and increasingly destructive storms.

enormous opportunities to Australian companies interested in profiting in the world's largest and most dynamic economy.

Even after the economy is back on its feet and grows -- upon their assumption of the rate of 3.2 percent a year -- even then, we still have a negative bottom line after you back out Social Security and Medicare, as we think he should,

Essentially traders can't seem to come to a consensus this week over the state of the US economy and this is leaving markets in a somewhat volatile state.

Even as a moderate slowing in US growth looms, growth prospects have improved for other engines of the world economy.

Everything is economics 101; supply, demand, interest rates. We have a limited supply in San Diego; however, everyone wants to come to here so the demand is very strong. That's why we're doing so well.

The result of Nkrumah's handling of the economy was calamitous. Ghana by 1965 had become virtually bankrupt.

The result of Nkrumah's handling of the economy was calamitous, ... Ghana by 1965 had become virtually bankrupt.

There's quite a healthy outlook for the economy and inflationary pressures are fairly subdued. I can't see why they need to do anything. They'll keep the policy statement unchanged.

There was a little bit of excitement at the open, and then later, a little concern as to whether there is really going to be enough economic strength to take things higher. How much longer can the Fed keep hiking rates and economic growth continue?

There's still quite a bit of slack in the economy, and you can't push through prices until you eliminate that slack.

There's still grave concerns about the Japanese economy, which should prove negative for the yen.

There's speculation that the upward trend will continue for economic growth and stocks. There's no need rush and buy bonds amid the risk that rates will rise.

There's some selling of the dollar on what appears to be a little weaker demand in the U.S. economy.

There's growth still there in the economy and the Fed's going to have to do its magic by continuing to raise interest rates.

There's growth still there in the economy, and the Fed's going to have to do its magic by continuing to raise interest rates.

There's more consensus . . . within the economics profession about how the world works than there was in the 1950s, '60s and '70s.

There's not much reason to be optimistic about the U.K. economy for now. As rate-cut speculation increases, the pound will come under more pressure.

There's nothing wrong with an old economy stock as long as you buy it cheap enough, and there's nothing wrong with a new economy stock as long as you buy it cheap enough. Profit is profit.

The tone seems a bit hawkish -- he admits to little in the way of signs of softness in the economy or risks to growth.

I started to train in economics, and I hated it. I never really entered that world, and went to a cooking school in London. Since then I've been cooking in great places all over the world: mostly California, Italy, and a little bit of France.

is larger than that of Japan, and may be approaching half the size of the American economy.

I see the Australian dollar as a strong currency trading very cheaply. Australia is a commodity-based economy, so with stronger commodity prices the currency should do better.

Things are looking real good for 2006. The economy is looking up. We have 29 projects going on now that represent a good mix of small and large companies that can create from five to 10 new jobs or a whole lot more.

Things are going well. ... With respect to the economy, there's tremendous continuity and you should watch what they do, not what they say.

Things are changing. It's a local economy. In other places people don't know their neighbors. They don't know their names. People don't say 'hello' to each other. Not here.

The world's problems are starting to infect the U.S. economy,

The whole of the global economy is based on supplying the cravings of teo per cent of the world's population.

The world has changed dramatically, with globalization and free trade, moving from an industrial economy to an information economy, ... But while that's been happening, K-12 education hasn't changed at all. Meanwhile, China's graduating five times as many engineers as we are, and you look at India and you get alarmed.

The world economy has become much more open and global. Greenspan was in favor of all that, as most economists are.

The risk to the economy is that we lose the consumer -- and I think we are losing the consumer.

The risks are going up nationally, but they're mitigated by a strong labor market and strong economy.

These companies are making long-term bets on the continued strength of the economy and visitation in Las Vegas. I don't think anybody knows for! sure what the total capacity will be in 2010 and what the demand will be four to five years from now to support the increase in supply. We only know about a portion of the potential supply out there.

The services-oriented sector of the economy is still looking fairly robust, averaging a 3.9 percent increase year-on-year. This is above the trend rate of inflation so that is upward pressure for the retail price index.

The service economy is still growing at a reasonable rate, but at least in January it wasn't accelerating. The rate of growth slowed down some.

These results reflect the general state of uncertainty that is prevalent in today's economy. Employees appear to be feeling the effects of the daily business news reports that are of concern to all Americans, from the boardrooms of Wall Street to the halls of Congress and the White House.

The sharp pullback in economic growth during the final three months of 2005 shows the law of gravity has not been repealed. When consumers are burdened with heavy debt loads, rising interest rates, higher energy costs, no personal savings and household income growth that falls below inflation, something had to give. This retrenchment in spending was generally foreseen, though economists weren't sure on the timing and magnitude.

The stock market doesn't know if it should focus on the fact that the economy is strong and profit momentum is good, or that rates have to go higher.

The situation today is so different than in the '70s. The laws are different, and people's understanding about economics is different. I don't see any serious move for such controls.

These new figures give us a clearer picture and a better way of understanding China's economy. Based on these figures, we can have even more confidence in our long-term fairly fast and sustained economic growth.

The strong domestic economy should cushion the impact of an anticipated slowdown in Hong Kong's trade growth this year.

The story of Sept. 11 is the tremendous resilience of the U.S. economy. We took a shot, a real shot, and came back. It shows you the power of this system.

The suburban schools have traditionally done better than the city schools, and I believe that's due to economics, plus, in the city schools we water each other down. We're fragmented, but in the suburbs you have one high school that everybody goes to.

The Singapore dollar is a good proxy for the yuan as Singapore is an open economy. When sentiment on the region and the yuan is strong, that's going to benefit the Singapore dollar.

The telecom sector has significant exposure to the economy.

The theory is that with rate increases, it doesn't effect the 'new economy' stocks.

The Texas labor market continues to gain strength as employers are adding jobs and more people are finding work. Texas is showing continued growth that speaks well for economic development in the state.

TEC firms reported that substantial gains in the overall economy have already occurred. They anticipate continued gains during the year ahead.

Technology is making everyone self-sufficient, the only way to make money is to capitalize on people's laziness

Sanford's boasting over 'the state of the economy' neglects the facts that South Carolina has the second-worst employment rate in the nation and 151,617 South Carolinians are still without jobs.

Salvation from outside the area for economic development hasn't worked. You've got to grow the companies and people you have here.

Sales of seemingly small items such as binoculars and bird seed are becoming a major force in the nation's economy as people take a greater interest in watching wildlife.

Prospects for the economy have improved substantially from the lows recorded following the Gulf Coast hurricanes and the surge in gas prices. Firms still expect a slower overall pace of economic growth during 2006 than in 2005. The expected growth slowdown is mainly due to anticipated increases in interest rates. Firms are much more optimistic about their own prospects in 2006, as they expected strong growth in revenues and profits.

Rate hikes bite different sectors of the economy at different rates. For example, one of the key areas that was hit hard and appears to be slowing down is housing. Consumer spending will take some time to slow down, maybe three to six months out. But in any case, what the Fed is targeting is                   GDP of 5 percent this year and a GDP hopefully next year of closer to 4 to 4-1/4 percent.

Realistically, they've done a lot already. The economy may be sleepy, but you don't need to hit it with everything you've got.

reacts to commercial economics but not to safety.

Profit is the ignition system of our economic engine.

Productivity, so far, has really enabled the economy to grow at a more rapid pace than normal without generating any kind of substantial increase in wage pressures.

profound implications for the free world's trading system and the long-term growth potential of the American economy.

Ours is an economy that is solid at its core.

Our economy was expanding, we were growing jobs and we could absorb shocks like this. It's not the massive impact people thought in the first place. It's actually a relatively small bump in the road.

People don't look at the economy in absolute terms; they compare how they're doing this year to last. There's no question we're growing slower. If the election was held last year, Al Gore would be doing a lot better.

People coming to town is always a good thing, ... It is good for the economy, but we must not forget that it was predicated by a loss.

After September, it was positive for most of the economy except for tourism. Things like car sales came back very quickly. GM and Ford got really scared about sales so they cut prices.

The national economy usually weathers these storms with relatively minor damage. Second, the hurricane is a 'supply shock' -- a disruption to productive potential -- not a 'demand shock.' The same factors that threaten growth -- higher commodity prices, shipping bottlenecks, reduced local productive capacity -- also threaten inflation.

The national economy is strong right now, and the Virginia economy is strong. We're better than pretty much any other state.

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After operating in the mid-3 percent employment growth range for the first half of 2005, the Utah economy unexpectedly jumped upward during last year's third quarter.

The most important thing is that strikes don't last forever. The economy is normally quite resilient and comes bouncing back.

Somebody was going to have to slow the (U.S.) economy down and Asia is now doing the Fed's work for it.

No way. To me this is not a matter of economics, it's a matter of passion. I understand over the last couple years the (stadium) process has stalled, but I'm looking to get the process moving along. I'm very positive that we'll get it accomplished.

The more active the market is, the easier it is for us to manage the economy.

Demand in the U.S. economy is reasonably strong and retailers are probably optimistic about the holiday shopping season so they are starting to order from abroad now. The trade deficit is going to take some time to turn around. It may not happen until next year.

Compared to the size of its economy and the fact that it is the biggest broadband market -- with 30 million subscribers and growing -- in the world, IPTV hasn't been able to make much of an impact in China yet. But in about two years China is expected to the biggest market in the world.

Despite some of the risks that I have highlighted, the U.S. economy seems to be on a reasonably firm footing, and underlying inflation remains contained,

Despite overall strong macro data, a recovery in the tech sector is lagging well behind the overall U.S. economy,

Anyone who understands economics knows radical budget restrictions are in the works.

Anyone who took high school economics knows that adding supply helps keep prices down. Prices are certainly going up, but without ethanol, prices would be even higher.

any kind of significant downturn in the economy is going to put the budget back in the red.

An immediate slowdown in the U.S. economy is an unlikely scenario as its growth rate is still quite high.

A primary goal of those who would disrupt the supply chain is to damage the U.S. economy by any means. If commerce is disrupted in a way that damages the ability of Americans to hold well-paying jobs, provide for their families and generate economic growth that helps the entire world, either through an attack or ill-conceived regulation of our international system, then terrorists will have achieved one of their key goals.

Anything that shows the economy is slowing will be taken very well by the market. But the Fed is still out there and I don't think we should get used to the (idea) the Fed going to stop (raising rates) in June.

Any reports that suggest a strong U.S. economy will re- ignite expectations of further Fed rate increases. That will trigger dollar-buying.

As bad as the situation is now. it can only get worse when the economy stops growing.

As companies have finished restructuring and the economy is expected to keep growing next year, you don't have to be pessimistic about a rise in the jobless rate in a single month.

Arrogant powers intend to make countries local and national economy bankrupt in an attempt to make more benefits from establishing a big market

The bottom line is that the job market carried good momentum and the economy can weather the temporary hit from the hurricanes.

The buoyancy of both the housing and mortgage markets indicates that the marked slowdown in the world economy and the recession in the UK manufacturing sector have so far had little adverse impact on consumer sentiment.

The building process alone adds to the economy. But beyond that, once its completed the number of employees and the law firms that may move there will generate business.

The budget presented today is a responsible and reasonable use of the increased revenues produced by our robust economy. With no new taxes, the balanced budget presented today is a good step towards keeping California's economy thriving.

The broad picture shows the economy is growing at much the same pace in the third as the second quarter,