60 Quotes by Steven Wieting

The fact that we can lower living costs at a time when output and income are recovering should be considered fantastic news.

We saw a lot of healing going on in 2002, and nobody gives any credit to it.

Exports were flat for a second month running and that has been what is most broken in the trade picture.

While we don't take monthly changes in employment too seriously, today's data were slightly stronger than expected on hiring, but slightly weaker on hours and utilization, thus providing a 'growth positive' outlook.

While the U.S. economy is still transitioning, and will for some time, data that should be supporting confidence in the recovery have not worked to ease investor concerns. We have to wonder if markets won't derail an otherwise quite healthy recovery in much of the core of the U.S. economy.

We already were expecting a 5,000-job decline in manufacturing employment in May.

This notion that there's just too much tech everywhere contrasts with the fact that there's actually been a spending improvement,

Beneath the surface, production and inventory, here and abroad, are moving up faster than the rate of demand growth,

Benchmark revisions could completely recast underlying data, in which case January forecasts won't be useful.