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This is a great PPI number. We have literally no wholesale inflation in the U.S. economy. The PPI went down, the core PPI was unchanged, and over the past year wholesale prices measured by the core PPI are barely up at all.

The economy is doing better than anyone three or four months ago thought it could do. While 1.4 percent growth is pretty feeble, it does mean the recession was, from a GDP perspective, the mildest one we ever had.

The economy is definitely making a transition. I think 1998 will be viewed as the year of soft landing when the economy went from a nearly 4 percent growth rate in the prior year, to just over 2 percent this year.

The economy was moving like a rocket in the first quarter. GDP probably rose at a 4.5 percent rate. It's a little faster than I thought earlier, primarily because even though demand was enormously strong in the first quarter, there was actually a pretty considerable case of inventory building.

The economy remains weak, but hints of stabilization are emerging.

The economy is still going very, very strong. I think in October the Fed will take a pass, what they do after that remains to be seen.

The economy is on the verge of recovery but the recession has not quite loosened its grip yet.

The Leading Economic Index is basically telling us what we already know. Despite the declines in the index, the economy is growing, although very slowly.

Profit is the ignition system of our economic engine.