Stephen Roach Quotes

By staying disciplined with regard to inflationary policy, the Fed nips any inflationary expectations in the bud. - Stephen Roach

Borrowing from physics, the last thing an unstable system needs is a shock. And yet the risks of just such a disturbance have never seemed higher. Far-fetched as it seems, the possibility of a more perilous endgame is rising. - Stephen Roach

As the prospects of a full-blown oil shock rise, the prospects of outright global recession in 2005 loom more and more likely. - Stephen Roach

2005 was a year that has lulled a lot of investors, policymakers and government officials into a dangerous and false sense of complacency. - Stephen Roach

[This] is just another nail in the coffin for the world economy. - Stephen Roach

[Inflation] is starting to broaden out; it's starting to move up a little bit... The Fed certainly has to be concerned about that. - Stephen Roach

[For all of China's efforts to create a vibrant domestic market, its economy is highly dependent on exports. China's economic model these days] is very much a levered play on the staying power of the overly extended American consumer... That's a tough place to be for any economy in an energy shock - even China. - Stephen Roach

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