Economy Quotes

You've still got a continuing upward swing of manufacturing employment, which is not the norm nationally. That's telling you that something very solid is happening in the Oregon economy. - Tim Duy

You've seen a big rotation over the last two or three days out of the 'new economy' toward the old, and it really continues the scene that we saw yesterday with the Nasdaq falling and the Dow rising quite sharply. - Peter Oppenheimer

You've lost your earnings catalyst so we're moving away from the second quarter. With the economy moderating you're looking at earnings estimates that are too high and have to come down. - Richard Cripps

You've had obviously a rise in gasoline prices, which is the visible price in the economy... There's (also) a tendency of the public to look at the unemployment rate that actually rose in March, while Wall Street looks at payrolls (which showed a large jump in the number of people working.) - Ethan Harris

You've got two things: a horrible retail environment ... and oil prices are up to $32 a barrel. When energy prices rise they pervade all aspects of the economy and costs go up. ... The big thing overhanging the market is what we are going to do with Iraq. - Michael Carty

You've got to respond to that and of course thinking through the role of a left party in the modern world, in the modern economy and society and having a policy response to that. - Patricia Hewitt

You've got to ask yourself, will we have another 100-to-150 basis-point decline in mortgage rates? ... I would say that's a stretch, so it's not going to be a reliable source of funds for consumers -- we'll need to see the economy turning around. - Anthony Chan

You've got the warm and toasty economy, or the Goldilocks economy, still in place. - Ram Kolluri

You've got the general problem of poverty and lack of government capacity. In Africa, everyone is encouraged to privatize, but there is a very important role of the state, strengthening oversight and regulatory mechanisms as you open up the economy. We've gone far in one way, but not the other. - Princeton Lyman