123 Quotes by Ken Goldstein

The number of job ads per 100 participants in the labor force is consistently highest on the West and East coasts and in the Mountain area.

It's the equivalent of a Disney Channel of broadband interactive content. It's become a good business for Disney. Our goal is to be as ubiquitous as the Disney Channel.

It's probably just some reversal of earlier losses. I'm not sure that it's anything more fundamental than that, although its pretty encouraging.

Consumer spending remains the mainstay of this weak economic recovery. With tax cuts enacted, the consumer is likely to continue hanging in there. But a real recovery, including a slowdown in layoffs and the opening of new jobs, is far more dependent on recovery in (business) investment than on stronger consumption growth.

Consumer sentiment about job prospects over the next six months dipped in January. Thus, not only are the indicators suggesting modest gains in hiring, but consumers also do not think more new jobs will start opening up this spring.

Consumers are concerned that wages are not keeping pace with inflation, and managers feel they can't raise prices. It's difficult to imagine how both can be satisfied in 2006.

Consumer income remains very strong and now there are bargain prices for a lot of new products that are just coming out to the market, big new computers, new DVD audio equipment,

That's about as good as it gets for the next six months. We're about to downshift at least one gear, especially with respect to the job market.

That's about as good as it gets for the next six months, ... We're about to downshift at least one gear, especially with respect to the job market.