40 Quotes by James Glassman

For every dollar that is coming in is a job going out.

It's setting up for a better performance by the consumer.

Consumer spending grew almost 4 percent in the spring quarter, before the tax stimulus package. In the third quarter it looks like consumer spending is going to be up 6 percent or so.

It'll end up being a pretty significant hit. It's easy to forget that these natural disasters destroy wealth. ... You can't make that up.

They are not committing anybody to a March rate hike.

It's really picking up half of labor pay.

It's reasonable for investors to be concerned with inflation, given six months ago we were talking about deflation. What we're seeing is the purchasing managers are telling us that the costs of some materials are going up. The question is, can it be passed on to consumers?

Skeptics will point to other waves of innovations in the past, but things are happening at lightning speed here. Two years ago no one knew what 'dot com' was.

The labor force is very flexible. If wages go up, it may suck all these workers back in.