234 Quotes by Mark Zandi

It is going to be a tough winter for many seniors. Not only will they face higher Medicare premiums, but record gasoline prices and higher home heating bills as well.

If protectionist sentiment boils over, that could be a precipitating factor for the dollar. In a dollar crash scenario, it puts the Fed in a particularly difficult spot. Do they tighten policy (raise interest rates) to attract global capital or do they loosen it to help support the economy?

Labor will start demanding bigger pay increases and will get them.

If underlying inflation begins to percolate higher, that will mean we will have to struggle with rising prices and higher interest rates.

I think what we have in store is a slow deflating of the housing bubble, not a bursting of the bubble. But if mortgage rates rise more sharply than I am expecting, then the downturn in housing could be more severe.

I think they will tighten, but there is a much higher level of uncertainty regarding this decision than at any one since they started over a year ago.

If you add up all the energy that flows through the region, it accounts for about a third of the nation's supply.

In the fourth grade, my history teacher gave us a project: Why was the auto industry located in Detroit, Michigan? I didn't know I was going to be an economist, but I knew I was going to do something that was involved in answering questions like that one because I thought that was a fascinating question.

I think the most likely scenario is that housing euphoria slowly deflates but doesn't burst.