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    With supply just not arriving quickly enough, it is increasingly looking as though it will take a severe downturn in economic growth and copper demand growth to tip the market into surplus.

    The most important factor leading to our trade deficit is that the U.S. economy has had much higher rates of economic growth and job creation than our major trading partners over the past decade,

    If you are worried about an international company that might lose revenue growth as a result of economic turmoil abroad you go back to the domestic places with the earnings, that means retail,


    A lot of people say, 'This is a waste of taxpayer money,' ... But we've allowed a lot of economic development along the coast, and that's a big economic impact.

    Mathematical economics is old enough to be respectable, but not all economists respect it. It has powerful supporters and impressive testimonials, yet many capable economists deny that mathematics, except as a shorthand or expository device, can be applied to economic reasoning. There have even been rumors that mathematics is used in economics (and in other social sciences) either for the deliberate purpose of mystification or to confer dignity upon common places as French was once used in diplomatic communications.


    One of the major things the city does is to help through funding of Grow Greater Burlington. I would put Dennis Hinkle (vice president of economic development for the chamber) up against any economic developer in the state. ... He's done a great job, an outstanding job and that's the major way that the city takes on that role. He's fulltime. I don't think anybody sitting on council now or any time in the past could do as good a job as a fulltime economic development focus person.


    I don't think we'll get any big surprises in the economic news next week, ... What the market will be looking for are any clues that point to anything other than four percent GDP (gross domestic product) growth.

    If the situation in Iraq has not improved, and if the hurricane causes an economic downturn, then Republican candidates have something to worry about.

    Given that the economic data will be strong, people will wonder why the Fed is not moving, which could cause some volatility in the markets. But we think the Fed will remain on hold for quite some time.

    Although housing sales and starts have cooled to more typical levels, the housing market remains strong and sound. Without the expansion of homeownership and the strength of our housing market, our nation would not have the economic growth we are experiencing today.

    This is going to be a positive year for the market, but the growth is going to be slow. The quick resolution to the Iraq war has been a positive and I think people took a lot of encouragement from that, which is why you've seen the run we've had, but the economic news has been mostly mixed.

    It is critical for people to organize and react against the abuse of market power. This is a political reaction, as clear evidence that the economic market is not working. Whenever you have to discipline an economic power, it's a demonstration of the failure of market forces.


    Eddie is exceptionally smart and his papers show it. He's one of the few economists I want to read because (his writing) is so clear. He's very articulate and can speak to different audiences with different levels of economics expertise. He has a unique ability to take really complicated ideas and make them understandable.


    The market has been miserable of late, so it's not surprising that we're seeing a little bounce now, aided by the three economic reports. The economic news isn't great, but it's not awful, so that helps.





    Economic medicine that was previously meted out by the cupful has recently been dispensed by the barrel. These once unthinkable dosages will almost certainly bring on unwelcome after-effects. Their precise nature is anyone's guess, though one likely consequence is an onslaught of inflation.

    For the economic recovery to be sustainable, domestic demand needs to strengthen and the consumer prices need to show consistent gains. Both of these factors are most directly influenced by wages.

    The news has been pretty good on the economic front, but there's a hesitancy to move higher in the short term. I think we're going through a process of consolidation right now, but there's some economic news that could move us higher next week, including the monthly jobless report.

    Coming on the heels of stronger reports on retail sales and durable-goods orders, as well as a sharp drop in first-time claims for unemployment, this ... drop in consumer confidence was a cold slap in the face to all of those economists, including ourselves, that are looking for a second-half rebound.


    It's been a convenient argument with Bush supporters. They'll continue to cite (the household number,) ... The majority of mainstream economists, headed by (Fed Chairman Alan) Greenspan, look at household data but they think payroll number is more important.


    There's a good chance the Fed will raise tomorrow and change their language to indicate rates are on hold until we get clearer signs from the economic data. We could get a little rally in Treasuries.


    Michigan is an economic hurricane center -- we've been hit but we aren't getting the attention of Hurricane Katrina victims. We need the same kind of attention New Orleans is getting for manufacturing.

    Yet this peppering of data notwithstanding, economists are not too sanguine about the immediate prospects for income growth on the bottom rungs of the wage scale. The job market is slowly tightening, ... We are wringing out the slack. But we're only six months into a process that could take a year and a half.


    While the growth we are seeing in Canada is both rapid and significant, we cannot lose sight of the fact that wind energy continues to develop much more quickly in other countries. With Canada's unparalleled wind resource, we can still do more to maximize the environmental, economic and industrial development benefits associated with wind energy for Canada.

    Eight years ago, our future was at risk, ... Economic growth was low, unemployment was high, interest rates were high, the federal debt had quadrupled in the previous 12 years. When Vice President Gore and I took office, the budget deficit was 290 billion, and it was projected this year the budget deficit would be 455 billion.

    Firstly, economic globalisation has brought prosperity and development to many countries, but also financial crises to Asia, Latin America and Russia, and increasing poverty and marginalisation.

    The earnings story is good and is likely to remain very good, and the economic conditions are likely to remain supportive. It's certainly not going to go straight up beyond this period, but I think we're about two-thirds of the way through this correction.

    Probably this will raise the cost of programming across the board for all of the networks, and this is not a positive element for network profits if advertising growth flattens out, which it very well may over the course of three or four years, ... In fact, it is almost a certainty that over that length of time you are going to have an economic slowdown.

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    You only have to look at the tropical forests, home to the great apes. Economists now calculate that they are worth US60 billion a year as a result of their ability to remove and store global warming gases from the atmosphere alone,

    The downturn in growth is concrete evidence that saturation in key segments is playing an increasingly important role in overall market growth, with new shipments unable to mask the effects of economic cycles on replacement buying,

    We're going to look at any economic news that shows the economy is starting to pick up steam. Anything on the front end of the economy where the consumer is if that starts to pick up steam then that's going to give investors confidence that the economy is going to pick up.

    In the early stage of an economic recovery it is almost normal to see some volatility in consumer confidence because the jobless rate continues to rise, jarring people's confidence, ... However, all the pieces are in place to generate recovery, including healthy spending, robust housing and record low business inventories.

    We've been stung in the past and again now with the economic downturn, so we spend a lot more time trying to understand how our key suppliers are positioned in the market,

    They've shown that they can grow revenue and lose a lot of money and they've shown that they can improve economics, but that slows revenue growth. They're going to have to find a balance to do both.

    The market has been pretty oversold and pessimism was and continues to be widespread, so the slight improvement in the economic data this morning and the fact that the Fed kept interest rates unchanged speaks to that pessimism for now. But tech continues to suffer, when other sectors are doing fine today (Thursday).

    This just happens to be a fresh attempt to bring in some of the icons of the young and the apolitical and to get them into the whole debate on joining the economic and monetary union.



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