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JAN HATZIUS Oil is the dog that didn't bark. It's neutral because it's not far away from the average of where it...
JAN HATZIUS I'm not sure which form it will take -- maybe a lengthy period of subdued consumer spending or somet...
JAN HATZIUS Going forward, is there still adjustment in the pipeline? I think there is. The household savings ra...
JAN HATZIUS While the official productivity data look impressive, alternative measures that are equally reasonab...
JAN HATZIUS We do believe that the U.S. housing market is a bubble in the sense that its contribution to consume...
JAN HATZIUS High margins are an inducement to invest more aggressively.
JAN HATZIUS We continue to believe that the underlying drivers of productivity growth are turning less favorable...
JAN HATZIUS What matters for our well-being is the net output -- remember, depreciation charges are not availabl...
JAN HATZIUS It's not plausible that capital spending has been weakened by the fact that multinationals are holdi...
JAN HATZIUS We will likely see some 'payback' for the blockbuster April report, which probably exaggerates the u...
JAN HATZIUS The Japanese consumer remains reluctant to buy U.S. beef.
BRUCE BERVEN The risk with the high oil price is that it hits the U.S. consumer more than the European or Swiss c...
ANDREAS HAHNER Oil was the biggest concern in terms of U.S. consumer spending.
HIROSHI CHANO The consumer related stocks coming off is only to be expected, given the news on the consumer that w...
ALIA BAIG Slower U.S. growth may reduce growth in oil demand in the second half of the year. We are seeing pro...
DARIUSZ KOWALCZYK The typical U.S. consumer may not see much of a difference when they go to the pump.
JAMES BURKHARD He's going to play the first game. If you go back to Jan.1, he's been the best goalie.
DON WADDELL Consumer spending in the U.S. slowed below even our own conservative estimates and corporate spendin...
CARLY FIORINA The bottom line is the consumer is showing signs of coming back. But the consumer has come back part...
LAWRENCE GOODMAN Although the cooling U.S. housing sector is going be a major drag on consumer spending as 2006 unfol...
SHERRY COOPER Without China's goods exports, the U.S. CPI (consumer price index) should have risen about two (more...
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BEN BERNANKE Saudi Arabia supplies much oil to the U.S. And it is the world's largest consumer of American we...
STEPHEN KINZER The silence of a wounded soul roars louder than any tempest...
VIRGINIA ALISON You don't hear any roars, do you? And I'm not sure there's going to be charges like we used to have ...
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I was just finishing on the 18th hole and he birdied No. 9 and 10. The roars, it was the most unbeli...
FRED COUPLES The baton of global consumption is being passed from the U.S. consumer base to the millions of consu...
JOSEPH QUINLAN Mobile demand remains strong worldwide, but in the U.S. desktop consumer market demand increased in ...
CHARLES SMULDERS Direct sellers tend to be globally diverse. They aren't typically leveraged to the U.S. consumer, wh...
DOUGLAS LANE Signs of weakening U.S. consumer demand are weighing on investor confidence in Asian exporter stocks...
BARRO LIAO![]()
Our primary goal in the consumer health service companies I back is helping them create an uncomprom...
JOHN SCULLEY What seems to be happening is that U.S. business sentiment is faltering and consumer sentiment is ta...
STEPHEN LEWIS It brings the consumer back into the market. In 1996, the consumer really wasn't buying. In 1997, wi...
GENE GLAZER It was the same thing (as in a 66-55 loss to Utica on Jan. 13). They started out on fire, and I don'...
CONNIE ALLEN I'm hoping they'll come out with more than they did on Jan. 20, when they weren't as forthcoming as ...
TIM ANDERSON Higher oil prices continue to pose threats to the stock market. Weaker consumer sentiment raises con...
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I believe that for the past twenty years there has been a creeping socialism spreading in the United...
DWIGHT DAVID EISENHOWER The additional six-month penalty may seem harsh, but that's the penalty for three violations. Two in...
PETER BERUBE This started back on Jan. 19. I have been having to stay with the girls all the time, Rhoda would be...
JAMES GALLAGHER Our results continue to be impacted by significant macro-economic challenges and particular weakness...
CARLY FIORINA Gas prices have a significant impact on the consumer psyche. These lower prices should be a boon to ...
KEN PERKINS I suspect that the HP surge ... is essentially the result of it moving forward smartly in the U.S. c...
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WILLIAM ADAMS It's going to be a slow recovery process. The first time he got out of bed it took him five minutes ...
ALEX PROCEL There is some anticipation ahead of Bush's speech as his planned tax cuts should help the U.S. consu...
ANDREA WILLIAMS Our aim is that the meeting will be between Jan. 10 and Jan. 20, in return to the visit of President...
MANUEL CHIRIBOGA You should have seen the crowd at the game [against Catasauqua in a doubleheader Jan. 10]. It was ne...
CHRIS DEUTSCH It's great to see him back playing in the U.S..
DEIRDRE HANLEY If consumer spending falls, the probability of the economy slipping back into recession is very high...
SCOTT HOYT It was not great, just good. The consumer spent a little better than many expected. Consumer confide...
DAN POOLE That's where Jan and I first met.
CRAIG BISHOP The main focus this week is what the beige book is saying about the consumer sector in the U.S. beca...
PAUL DONOVAN [The report indicates] consumer spending is gearing back, ... It is very much in line with sagging i...
DOUGLAS PORTER While the U.S. consumer appears to be in reasonably good shape, the risk lies in the potential for h...
ADRIENNE WARREN The cooling U.S. housing sector should apply a dampener to consumer spending as 2005-2006 unfolds, b...
SHERRY COOPER More mature regions like the U.S. and Europe were significantly affected by consumer conservatism an...
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Europe believes that providing clear labelling for genetically modified food is a consumer right, bu...
ZAC GOLDSMITH Cooling housing markets will have a negative impact on consumer spending and employment. The dollar ...
YUJI KAMEOKA His position would be the same. These are sort of back-door attempts to raise consumer rates.
ABBY OTTENHOFF Strong figures will boost expectations of higher growth in consumer spending in the U.S.. That will ...
YUJI SAITO That's the word from the Internal Revenue Service, effective Jan. 1, 2006.
JAY YATES It's a flash. It just roars right at us. It's just unimaginable how fast it really is.
DENNIS CRAVENS![]()
Pride is an evil dragon; it sleeps underneath your heart and then roars when you need silence.
JODI PICOULT It's the U.S. securities market's way to get back business we've lost.
BENN STEIL To put that offer on the table for the next three months, it's clear to me that they're willing to s...
TIM EVANS![]()
The winds grow high;
Impending tempests charge the sky;
The lightning flies, the thunder roars...
MATTHEW PRIOR We'll be going to the Factory at Franklin on Tuesday, Jan. 24.
LISA FOSTER We will probably be putting traffic back on U.S. 98.
DON WALKER It's important that we are participating voluntarily with state and federal officials. The line alon...
GARY SEASE Natural gas production in the U.S is still not back up to 100 percent, and gas is the most commonly ...
GERARD BURG Our real big concern is that the combination of rising bond yields, sustained high energy prices and...
ABHIJIT CHAKRABORTTI![]()
We want to help U.S. entrepreneurs, small business owners, and brands and companies of all sizes sel...
JACK MA We opened Jan. 9, and business has been steadily increasing.
DANNY STRICKLAND![]()
And just remember, every dollar we spend on outsourcing is spent on U.S. goods or invested back in t...
ARTHUR LAFFER It was a tradition to have a cake that had, originally, a bean in it on Jan. 6, and whoever got the ...
DALE CURRY We lost to them by 20 points the last time we faced them (72-52 on Jan. 10) and they were up 33-9 on...
CRAIG SICKELS Will that turns to sales? Maybe, maybe not, but the incentives certainly are going to help the consu...
ART SPINELLA there's a sense Jan will stand up to the mayor when she disagrees.
GEORGE GRIFFIN Be and not seem. A man is related to all nature. The less government we have the better. Every man h...
U.S. POET We are planning to buy Treasuries and the consumer price report reinforced our views that U.S. notes...
SATOSHI ASAI What if Tonya Harding were admitted back in U.S. figure skating?
JAMES HASTIE Jan. 31, 1946 was the very first meeting for the Kennett Chamber of Commerce.
JAN MCELWRATH![]()
That really is my trademark. Day to day, week in, week out. If something happens and the crowd roars...
VIN SCULLY![]()
My sole focus is to help bring a World Cup back to the U.S.
ABBY WAMBACH The purpose of the increase is to maintain buying power. The amount of the increase is set by the U....
MARK LASSITER![]()
Be curious always! For knowledge will not acquire you: you must acquire it.
SUDIE BACK She came to live with me in Albany. She really enjoyed that, she got to see some of the grandchildre...
FLORENCE BACK![]()
Be curious always! For knowledge will not acquire you: you must acquire
it.
SUDIE BACK She loved having a large family. She has 56 grandchildren, 84 great-grandchildren, and 28 great-grea...
FLORENCE BACK She was an excellent cook.
FLORENCE BACK It was hard work. We only went to school when it rained. If it wasn't raining, we were in the fields...
FLORENCE BACK They just thought they would make a good match.
FLORENCE BACK After all of us kids were grown and moved away, Mom and Daddy moved back to where they grew up. It w...
FLORENCE BACK From the consumer perspective, what happened in the U.S. 10 years ago and Europe five years ago is n...
MAELLE GAVET
JAN HATZIUS The chairman now sounds notably more worried than previously that house prices have risen too much a...
JAN HATZIUS A year ago, it was not that difficult to predict six months in advance where they were going to be. ...
JAN HATZIUS Oil is the dog that didn't bark. It's neutral because it's not far away from the average of where it...
JAN HATZIUS I'm not sure which form it will take -- maybe a lengthy period of subdued consumer spending or somet...
JAN HATZIUS Going forward, is there still adjustment in the pipeline? I think there is. The household savings ra...
JAN HATZIUS While the official productivity data look impressive, alternative measures that are equally reasonab...
JAN HATZIUS We do believe that the U.S. housing market is a bubble in the sense that its contribution to consume...
JAN HATZIUS High margins are an inducement to invest more aggressively.
JAN HATZIUS We continue to believe that the underlying drivers of productivity growth are turning less favorable...
JAN HATZIUS What matters for our well-being is the net output -- remember, depreciation charges are not availabl...
JAN HATZIUS It's not plausible that capital spending has been weakened by the fact that multinationals are holdi...
JAN HATZIUS We will likely see some 'payback' for the blockbuster April report, which probably exaggerates the u...
JAN HATZIUS The Japanese consumer remains reluctant to buy U.S. beef.
BRUCE BERVEN The risk with the high oil price is that it hits the U.S. consumer more than the European or Swiss c...
ANDREAS HAHNER Oil was the biggest concern in terms of U.S. consumer spending.
HIROSHI CHANO The consumer related stocks coming off is only to be expected, given the news on the consumer that w...
ALIA BAIG Slower U.S. growth may reduce growth in oil demand in the second half of the year. We are seeing pro...
DARIUSZ KOWALCZYK The typical U.S. consumer may not see much of a difference when they go to the pump.
JAMES BURKHARD He's going to play the first game. If you go back to Jan.1, he's been the best goalie.
DON WADDELL Consumer spending in the U.S. slowed below even our own conservative estimates and corporate spendin...
CARLY FIORINA The bottom line is the consumer is showing signs of coming back. But the consumer has come back part...
LAWRENCE GOODMAN Although the cooling U.S. housing sector is going be a major drag on consumer spending as 2006 unfol...
SHERRY COOPER Without China's goods exports, the U.S. CPI (consumer price index) should have risen about two (more...
YI XIAOZHUN Yet again, the U.S. consumer has phenomenal resilience and is not being swayed by the employment num...
LARA RHAME
The crisis in Europe has affected the U.S. economy by acting as a drag on our exports, weighing on b... BEN BERNANKE Saudi Arabia supplies much oil to the U.S. And it is the world's largest consumer of American we...
STEPHEN KINZER The silence of a wounded soul roars louder than any tempest...
VIRGINIA ALISON You don't hear any roars, do you? And I'm not sure there's going to be charges like we used to have ...
FUZZY ZOELLER
I was just finishing on the 18th hole and he birdied No. 9 and 10. The roars, it was the most unbeli... FRED COUPLES The baton of global consumption is being passed from the U.S. consumer base to the millions of consu...
JOSEPH QUINLAN Mobile demand remains strong worldwide, but in the U.S. desktop consumer market demand increased in ...
CHARLES SMULDERS Direct sellers tend to be globally diverse. They aren't typically leveraged to the U.S. consumer, wh...
DOUGLAS LANE Signs of weakening U.S. consumer demand are weighing on investor confidence in Asian exporter stocks...
BARRO LIAO
Our primary goal in the consumer health service companies I back is helping them create an uncomprom... JOHN SCULLEY What seems to be happening is that U.S. business sentiment is faltering and consumer sentiment is ta...
STEPHEN LEWIS It brings the consumer back into the market. In 1996, the consumer really wasn't buying. In 1997, wi...
GENE GLAZER It was the same thing (as in a 66-55 loss to Utica on Jan. 13). They started out on fire, and I don'...
CONNIE ALLEN I'm hoping they'll come out with more than they did on Jan. 20, when they weren't as forthcoming as ...
TIM ANDERSON Higher oil prices continue to pose threats to the stock market. Weaker consumer sentiment raises con...
CHOI CHANG HOON
I believe that for the past twenty years there has been a creeping socialism spreading in the United... DWIGHT DAVID EISENHOWER The additional six-month penalty may seem harsh, but that's the penalty for three violations. Two in...
PETER BERUBE This started back on Jan. 19. I have been having to stay with the girls all the time, Rhoda would be...
JAMES GALLAGHER Our results continue to be impacted by significant macro-economic challenges and particular weakness...
CARLY FIORINA Gas prices have a significant impact on the consumer psyche. These lower prices should be a boon to ...
KEN PERKINS I suspect that the HP surge ... is essentially the result of it moving forward smartly in the U.S. c...
ROGER KAY After witnessing the power of the force, Luke Skywalker exclaimed, "I don't believe it!" His Jedi me...
THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK Now our prices are tied back with the U.S..
ANNE DUNFORD
The ripple effect from Hurricane Katrina may be far reaching, ... already sent fuel prices soaring w... WILLIAM ADAMS It's going to be a slow recovery process. The first time he got out of bed it took him five minutes ...
ALEX PROCEL There is some anticipation ahead of Bush's speech as his planned tax cuts should help the U.S. consu...
ANDREA WILLIAMS Our aim is that the meeting will be between Jan. 10 and Jan. 20, in return to the visit of President...
MANUEL CHIRIBOGA You should have seen the crowd at the game [against Catasauqua in a doubleheader Jan. 10]. It was ne...
CHRIS DEUTSCH It's great to see him back playing in the U.S..
DEIRDRE HANLEY If consumer spending falls, the probability of the economy slipping back into recession is very high...
SCOTT HOYT It was not great, just good. The consumer spent a little better than many expected. Consumer confide...
DAN POOLE That's where Jan and I first met.
CRAIG BISHOP The main focus this week is what the beige book is saying about the consumer sector in the U.S. beca...
PAUL DONOVAN [The report indicates] consumer spending is gearing back, ... It is very much in line with sagging i...
DOUGLAS PORTER While the U.S. consumer appears to be in reasonably good shape, the risk lies in the potential for h...
ADRIENNE WARREN The cooling U.S. housing sector should apply a dampener to consumer spending as 2005-2006 unfolds, b...
SHERRY COOPER More mature regions like the U.S. and Europe were significantly affected by consumer conservatism an...
LOREN LOVERDE
Europe believes that providing clear labelling for genetically modified food is a consumer right, bu... ZAC GOLDSMITH Cooling housing markets will have a negative impact on consumer spending and employment. The dollar ...
YUJI KAMEOKA His position would be the same. These are sort of back-door attempts to raise consumer rates.
ABBY OTTENHOFF Strong figures will boost expectations of higher growth in consumer spending in the U.S.. That will ...
YUJI SAITO That's the word from the Internal Revenue Service, effective Jan. 1, 2006.
JAY YATES It's a flash. It just roars right at us. It's just unimaginable how fast it really is.
DENNIS CRAVENS
Pride is an evil dragon; it sleeps underneath your heart and then roars when you need silence. JODI PICOULT It's the U.S. securities market's way to get back business we've lost.
BENN STEIL To put that offer on the table for the next three months, it's clear to me that they're willing to s...
TIM EVANS
The winds grow high;
Impending tempests charge the sky;
The lightning flies, the thunder roars... MATTHEW PRIOR We'll be going to the Factory at Franklin on Tuesday, Jan. 24.
LISA FOSTER We will probably be putting traffic back on U.S. 98.
DON WALKER It's important that we are participating voluntarily with state and federal officials. The line alon...
GARY SEASE Natural gas production in the U.S is still not back up to 100 percent, and gas is the most commonly ...
GERARD BURG Our real big concern is that the combination of rising bond yields, sustained high energy prices and...
ABHIJIT CHAKRABORTTI
We want to help U.S. entrepreneurs, small business owners, and brands and companies of all sizes sel... JACK MA We opened Jan. 9, and business has been steadily increasing.
DANNY STRICKLAND
And just remember, every dollar we spend on outsourcing is spent on U.S. goods or invested back in t... ARTHUR LAFFER It was a tradition to have a cake that had, originally, a bean in it on Jan. 6, and whoever got the ...
DALE CURRY We lost to them by 20 points the last time we faced them (72-52 on Jan. 10) and they were up 33-9 on...
CRAIG SICKELS Will that turns to sales? Maybe, maybe not, but the incentives certainly are going to help the consu...
ART SPINELLA there's a sense Jan will stand up to the mayor when she disagrees.
GEORGE GRIFFIN Be and not seem. A man is related to all nature. The less government we have the better. Every man h...
U.S. POET We are planning to buy Treasuries and the consumer price report reinforced our views that U.S. notes...
SATOSHI ASAI What if Tonya Harding were admitted back in U.S. figure skating?
JAMES HASTIE Jan. 31, 1946 was the very first meeting for the Kennett Chamber of Commerce.
JAN MCELWRATH
That really is my trademark. Day to day, week in, week out. If something happens and the crowd roars... VIN SCULLY
My sole focus is to help bring a World Cup back to the U.S. ABBY WAMBACH The purpose of the increase is to maintain buying power. The amount of the increase is set by the U....
MARK LASSITER
Be curious always! For knowledge will not acquire you: you must acquire it. SUDIE BACK She came to live with me in Albany. She really enjoyed that, she got to see some of the grandchildre...
FLORENCE BACK
Be curious always! For knowledge will not acquire you: you must acquire
it. SUDIE BACK She loved having a large family. She has 56 grandchildren, 84 great-grandchildren, and 28 great-grea...
FLORENCE BACK She was an excellent cook.
FLORENCE BACK It was hard work. We only went to school when it rained. If it wasn't raining, we were in the fields...
FLORENCE BACK They just thought they would make a good match.
FLORENCE BACK After all of us kids were grown and moved away, Mom and Daddy moved back to where they grew up. It w...
FLORENCE BACK From the consumer perspective, what happened in the U.S. 10 years ago and Europe five years ago is n...
MAELLE GAVET
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