44 Quotes by David Resler

We're going to get some extra employment growth as people displaced by the hurricanes find their way back into the job market, and that's likely to continue in the first few months of this year.

Since the end of January, things seem to have hit a wall across a wide array of economic indicators. This confirms what all that anecdotal evidence and factual reports have been telling us.

Nevertheless, money supply contractions are often harbingers of bad times ahead, and if this lasts much longer, people will get more concerned.

One of these days, we're going to see an increase in non-farm payrolls for the manufacturing sector.

It could be a drag on earnings...something that delays the revival of profits so central to the revival of the economy itself.

I think we can look to several more months, if not years, of this kind of performance. This is a terrific inflation report - exactly the kind of thing we all like to see.

Overall, the data for the capital goods sector remains somewhat erratic, but the underlying trend remains upward.

Overall the 56.7 reading for the ISM index is consistent with (economic) growth in the first quarter running above 5.0 percent.

Overall, durable orders need to be looked at on a trend basis, and even after the drop in orders other than transportation orders ... the capital good sector remains very healthy and will contribute solidly to growth throughout 2006.