152 Quotes by Mark Vitner

When combined with the anticipated double-digit gains in employer health-care costs, manufacturers may find it very difficult to add to their payrolls next year and may opt to work their existing work forces longer.

While goods producers continue to have little to no pricing power, we still believe the odds of outright deflation remain fairly low.

While it seems counterintuitive, higher gasoline prices are actually helping restrain core inflation, ... With more money being spent for gasoline, consumers have fewer dollars left for discretionary purchases. The net result is that firms are slashing prices on everything from cars to beer in order to move product.

With so many folks sensing that interest rates were rising, we probably had some sales pulled from April into March,

When the federal government increases the budget deficit it increases interest rates on everybody, so it is like a tax increase on borrowing. What that means is that mortgages will be more expensive.

Unemployment is low in places that were and were not impacted by hurricanes. It has been low for quite some time all across the state.

Exports are off in virtually every category. I don't see much near-term improvement for the trade deficit. The trade deficit will probably shave about 0.5 percent off of third quarter Gross Domestic Product.

But pension accounting is awfully complicated and it's an awfully big company, so it's not surprising the markets would get a little spooked by it.

We've had very little economic growth, virtually no job growth. The only way you'll get income growth is through wage increases or through tax cuts.