47 Quotes by Richard Jerram

Price rises are gradually feeding down the production chain.

Some people are thinking that is a little bit too small to get the banking system back on its feet.

It is difficult to find any part of the economic puzzle that would lead you to be less confident about the full-year 2006 outlook than you were six months ago.

Three months ago, the debate was whether the economy was still declining or going sideways. Now the debate is whether the economy is going sideways or whether it is improving.

We think the U.S. could expand by around 3% while Japan's economy could grow somewhere between 3.5% and 4%.

Exports seem to be stalling and there are some signs this is already being felt by industrial production,

The government still is claiming that the economy is okay. And if the economy's okay, then there's no reason to change it's fiscal stance. The mere fact that the market has gone down 10 percent doesn't really matter in economic terms.

We see the domestic revival as steadily broadening out and in the end that should start to drive production.

There is also the issue of debt forgiveness for some construction companies by banks,