25 Quotes by Gerald Cohen

We believe earnings momentum should turn strongly positive by the second quarter, but earnings gains in 2002 are unlikely to come close to reversing the collapse in 2001.

The decline in inventory suggests that production will start to ramp up and should lead to a pick up in growth going forward.

We're talking about the difference between a little below and a little above, but the number is consistent with the view that we're going to see payrolls flat to lower in August.

The reason it has never surfaced - are you sitting down? - is because it doesn't exist!

What group often combines a keen sense of humor with bad taste? ... College students.

No two periods are ever identical, and we don't expect cars to sprout fins, but we do think that there's a good chance that many of the favorable economic trends of the 1950s will re-emerge in the years immediately ahead.

A self-sustaining recovery depends on job growth. And I think we will get some going forward.

These numbers give you pause. The ISM and the fact that jobless claims continue to rise suggest there continues to be job loss.

The core is up 0.3 percent over the last year, and so there really is no inflation, ... In the first year of recoveries, consumer price inflation tends to fall as it did in the past 40 years. We believe inflation should not be an issue for the foreseeable future.