15 Quotes by James Malcolm

Ultimately he's likely to be forced to compromise more, ... there hasn't been very much in the way of backing down.

No doubt about it, (the number) was a disappointment, well below what we, or I think anybody else, expected, ... We'll probably be trimming our forecast for the second-quarter GDP now.

If anyone is looking for any signs of brightness, you would expect to see it on confidence and outlook, with Koizumi. So far there's not much signs of that happening.

He has a broad framework in mind. He has to be a little flexible in terms of how it is implemented,

There are quite a lot of push factors away from the U.S. and a lot of pull factors to Asia.

Currencies have been very straight-forward beneficiaries of dollar weakness.

The business environment has deteriorated significantly. The business sector is where things are the worst at the moment, particularly in the manufacturing sector.

The weaker the economy is, it makes it more difficult to push ahead with reforms, ... Clearing up the bad loan problem and reducing the deficit are deflationary.

It's just buying time and trying to smooth over any sudden shock associated with moving away from the dollar peg.