David Rosenberg Quotes

You need more than just the ability to spend, you need the incentive to spend. You're only going to start spending if you can prove to your board that your investment is going to pay off. - David Rosenberg

With the exception of the backward-looking Q4 GDP report, the data released today surprised to the downside. - David Rosenberg

With affordability at a 20-year low, we will be keeping a close eye on the inventory numbers in 2006. Demand has rolled over just when we're seeing supply peak. That's a prescription for a price adjustment. - David Rosenberg

Whether it's lingering layoffs, receding real wage growth or cutbacks in health/pension benefits, corporate America is now in the process of shifting its lack of pricing power onto the backs of its workforce. - David Rosenberg

When you think of all the fiscal and monetary stimulus we've had, we should have the economy growing at 5 or 6 percent. The fact that we're not is the story. - David Rosenberg

When rates back up, growth slows quickly. Fully three-quarters of the time in the past five years when we endured a bond yield spasm like we have seen since mid-January, GDP (Gross Domestic Product) growth slowed the following quarter and by an average of one percentage point. - David Rosenberg

What [all this] spells is inflation from barely 0 percent all the way up to something that doesn't even make it to 2 percent. This is an easy money policy? - David Rosenberg

We're not sure what to make of the fact that we find out from a reporter about comments that the Fed chairman made at a dinner two days earlier. - David Rosenberg

We would expect both to move back down to pre-Katrina levels in the near-term. - David Rosenberg

We think that countries and areas of activity that have been weakest in the last couple of years are likely to see the strongest rebound in growth. Thus, Germany, Italy and the Netherlands should see more marked recoveries than Spain and France, where activity has held up well. - David Rosenberg

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