152 Quotes by Mark Vitner

We're seeing both the quantity and quality of the jobs being created improving.

The biggest mistake of economists over the past 20 years ... We've consistently underestimated growth.

The problem with the November employment numbers is hiring for the holiday season. It's hard to get a gauge of what it's going to be. They do a seasonal adjustment to the number to account for that, but the seasonal adjustment causes wider swings. And this year Thanksgiving came later in the month, so hiring might have started after the November data was collected.

It's beginning to look like the Fed was right all along ... and that the case for a recession has gotten a lot weaker. It looks like we're going to have a successful bumpy landing.

The prices paid is still way up there, inflation is still running a little hot, enough that the Fed will continue to raise interest rates.

It will take longer for Louisiana and Mississippi to recover from the storm than Florida last year, ... Resource- and agriculture-reliant areas just don't do as well.

We're shifting from an economy driven by consumer spending and home building to one driven by business investment.

The two-steps-forward, one-step-back sequence is not at all uncommon for the Consumer Confidence Index during the early stages of an economic recovery.

Lots of the activity that had been taking place in New Orleans is now taking place in Houston or Dallas or Atlanta, Birmingham or Baton Rouge,