Carl Weinberg Quotes (28 Quotes)

Canada is doing great -- both of the reports today were good news. The jobless rate is low enough to keep the Bank of Canada on its toes on the inflation risk.

There's no place like home, we say to American investors. Click your heels three times and leave it in Kansas.

I certainly don't see this as the beginning of the end for the U.S. dollar and I don't see this as the beginning of the beginning for the Japanese economy, either. A stronger yen is going to slow the Japanese economy down and a weaker dollar isn't going to have an enormous impact on the U.S., so it's not a major concern at the moment.

These indicators are suggesting a pickup in economic activity over the next few months now that the monetary constraint on growth has been lifted. Hooray.

All this mayhem is very similar to what we have seen in Latin America and in Asia in recent decades. It is driven initially by inflation. This is what China must act to contain. So far, it has not. So the odds of a hard landing remain high.

It's not so much a matter of if, but when rates will have to rise. There's a distinct possibility that if we see more evidence of strong growth, the Fed will move sooner rather than later.

These days, the Fed chairman has to be not only a great economist and a good politician, but also a spin doctor, ... Street Sweep .

The euro has no support from monetary policy. Look out below

The growing perception is that Japan is falling back into a dark hole of recession again.

The government is quite rationally focusing on the issues that will deliver the most domestic bang for its yuan...That puts the US Congress and its demand for yuan reforms in the back seat.

All the focus is on the one number and we're figuring . . . that we are going to see the CPI number actually turn out to be quite good at 0.1 or even flat on the overall,

We call this process the Death Spiral.

If the governments do not reaffirm their commitment to repeatedly intervene until the currency stabilizes, the intervention will fail.

If data between now and the October or November meeting show either a re-acceleration of demand or a slowdown in productivity growth, we should be on the alert for a rate hike.

The perception is that rates are going up, and people are lining up to buy homes because of that. It's not a matter of if, but when the Fed raises interest rates, and that's going to have some effect on spending patterns.

The catastrophic destruction of wealth than began in January 1990 has left assets equities and real estate, mainly deflated against a mass of liabilities that are mainly bank loans.

Even if they succeeded in slowing down China's growth rate from 10.2 percent to 9.75 percent, what difference would that make for your outlook for copper It's an effort to buy space around the U.S. demands for a stronger yuan.

Unless Japan moves to reduce its fiscal deficit sharply -- in the fat years of this business cycle -- its public sector debt-to-GDP ratio will rise without limit.

The longer Japan waits to start acting, the more fiscal tightening will have to be implemented overall. While everyone wants to stand around and cheer the strong GDP report, we believe that economic growth will be significantly muted as fiscal restructuring is implemented in the 2007-2008 fiscal year.

It strikes us both as brave and foolish to look for an improbable rate hike at this particular meeting.

European growth is projected to average less than U. S. growth for a tenth consecutive year.

Strong economies and low inflation may not be inconsistent anymore.

Company and economic performance in Japan is still disappointing and bank lending over there is retracting, ... This is a swell of money into the yen, but at this point I think it's a very speculative swell.

This is more a case of investors pouring money into the Japanese economy than a case of investors scooping money out of the U.S. economy, ... The dollar is weak against the yen, but strong against almost all other currencies, which suggests to me that it's speculative money flowing into Japan.

It tells us the U.S. economy is still quite strong, ... it doesn't mean there couldn't be a forecast for trouble, particularly at the Fed.

America works and the rest of the world doesn't -- that's our theme for 1999.

We think the market was too fast to move stock prices up in anticipation of an economic recovery, ... The Nikkei is set to slide.

It's painfully clear that the longer Japan waits to address its fiscal deficit, the fewer plausible scenarios there will be to bring the debt-to-GDP ratio down -- ever.