137 Quotes by Robert Brusca

We can't pump out jobs at the rate of 300,000 a month. Numbers as high as even 200,000 a month, they're even too much.

We are coming off strong numbers, and I don't think we would want to say bad things about the housing market on the basis of these numbers alone.

We knew jobs were front-end loaded because of the weather. Even so, this is dramatic.

To me, the concern right now is that holiday shopping has been spotty . We had a great Black Friday , the week after that was miserable and then sales ticked up again after that,

The problem, ... is that the markets have fallen sharply and they've fallen because all these financial shenanigans are coming unraveled.

There are rates that may not move at all and there are rates that may move opposite to what the Fed has done.

This refunding went really poorly. People still have nagging concerns,

This really muddies the waters on jobs, ... I continue to see a lot of labor market distress, and I am more impressed by the sudden weakness in the Challenger report than by the rebound in the cantankerous ISM.

This shows the Fed rate cut was really quite needed, ... and would probably suggest the Fed might have more work to do to hold things together.