What the Fed told us today is, we don't think we are done yet and we are not sure when we will be done.
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It's a lot better than 1990-91, when we started out from a lower level, ... The bottom line is, consumers are going to be just fine. There's not going to be a bubble, like when we had 3.9 percent unemployment in April 2000. The labor market will tighten enough again, but for the moment it's going to be more balanced.Diane Swonk
What can the Fed do about WorldCom This is not an interest rate problem. This is not something they should be involved with, ... I'm sorry, Wall Street, but you can't look to the Fed to save you when they don't have the tools to save you on this one.
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Not only are retailers doing more with less, like every other large corporation, and taking advantage of six fewer days in the shopping season, but they are actually hiring less this holiday shopping season, so there's fewer people on the floors actually helping consumers out.
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By the end of the year, there will be some builders with some overhang of construction relative to demand, ... Now's the time when you'd hope everybody cools off a bit and moderates their building, but that's not human nature -- and it's not the way for homebuilders to make money in the near term.
Diane Swonk
Given the obvious hardship of having illegal aliens flooding in, we also know they are critical to the functioning of the U.S. economy. To be turning our backs on people who want to work is kind of silly in an environment where you've got tight labor markets and we're getting older and need younger people to work.
Diane Swonk
When the economy goes back down again, years down the road, will consumer credit be a major problem, like it was in the 1990-91 recession ... Yes, it could come back to haunt us. But right now, it's a macroeconomic plus.
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