392 Quotes by Anthony Chan

While job losses may be ebbing, we have yet to see any signs of outsized hiring. This will not come ... until we transition from a slow-growing expansion to a normal economic recovery.

It doesn't give support to a robust expansion, ... Expansion is coming, just not the garden-variety explosive economic expansion.

It now looks as though the economy is continuing to gravitate towards a more gradual pace of economic growth.

The resiliency of the consumer is very impressive in the wake of so many terror warnings. One cautionary note is that, moving forward, these numbers may soften, as those warnings are still coming.

I think if you get a payroll above 300, it will probably spook the market. It puts the Fed back into play.

What this does is basically vindicate Greenspan's policy. In 2000, we're going to see more of a gradualist policy.

There's no question unemployment is what drives consumer confidence, which in turn drives consumer spending. We have to be realistic and accept the notion that, as we enter the first quarter and December, these sales are going to get a bit weaker. We're still in a recession.

It lets the Fed feel more comfortable of raising only at a measured, and not an accelerated, pace,

I think if we get another 0.3 rise in the core CPI, I think the Fed will want to draw line in the sand, ... The Fed statement shows there are a lot of anxious parties at that meeting willing to be (more) aggressive.