We are at a time in the cycle when you don't need to just turn down the flames on the fire, you have a pot that is already boiling. What the Fed is concerned about is that even as you begin to turn down the flames that pot will still boil over. - Diane Swonk Quotes
We are at a time in the cycle when you don't need to just turn down the flames on the fire, you have a pot that is already boiling. What the Fed is concerned about is that even as you begin to turn down the flames that pot will still boil over. Diane Swonk
 

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The bottom line is, you're going to be waiting in more lines. - Diane Swonk Quotes

The bottom line is, you're going to be waiting in more lines.

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They're now looking at the demand trade-off on oil prices, not just the inflation trade-off, which will make Fed policy much more complicated. It's a subtle but important change. - Diane Swonk Quotes

They're now looking at the demand trade-off on oil prices, not just the inflation trade-off, which will make Fed policy much more complicated. It's a subtle but important change.

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 Inflation
The longer this goes on ... the more closely it resembles the inflationary push that we saw in the latter part of the 1960s. - Diane Swonk Quotes

The longer this goes on ... the more closely it resembles the inflationary push that we saw in the latter part of the 1960s.

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Not only are retailers doing more with less, like every other large corporation, and taking advantage of six fewer days in the shopping season, but they are actually hiring less this holiday shopping season, so there's fewer people on the floors actually helping consumers out. - Diane Swonk Quotes

Not only are retailers doing more with less, like every other large corporation, and taking advantage of six fewer days in the shopping season, but they are actually hiring less this holiday shopping season, so there's fewer people on the floors actually helping consumers out.

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 Advantage
I'm a little bit surprised there isn't a 'monitoring' component [in the Fed's statement], ... They certainly left themselves open to ease further if they need to, but there's no urgency to it. - Diane Swonk Quotes

I'm a little bit surprised there isn't a 'monitoring' component [in the Fed's statement], ... They certainly left themselves open to ease further if they need to, but there's no urgency to it.

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[The conference takes Fed staff and academics] out of their ivory tower ... It's the unique mix of those individuals — that's the beauty of it. - Diane Swonk Quotes

[The conference takes Fed staff and academics] out of their ivory tower ... It's the unique mix of those individuals — that's the beauty of it.

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 Academics
As auto sales taper off, we'll see a reallocation of spending. A resolution of the Iraq situation will cause a relief rally and get companies to invest back into the business, ... Also, oil prices will plummet and that typically stimulates real income growth. - Diane Swonk Quotes

As auto sales taper off, we'll see a reallocation of spending. A resolution of the Iraq situation will cause a relief rally and get companies to invest back into the business, ... Also, oil prices will plummet and that typically stimulates real income growth.

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 Iraq
The Fed doesn't want to be dealing with the old economy, with deficits returning. They're trying to have some impact on decisions made now without getting us into permanent problems. - Diane Swonk Quotes

The Fed doesn't want to be dealing with the old economy, with deficits returning. They're trying to have some impact on decisions made now without getting us into permanent problems.

Diane Swonk

 Economy
I don't think we're gong to get any more at all. - Diane Swonk Quotes

I don't think we're gong to get any more at all.

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To be turning our backs on people who want to work is kind of silly in an environment where you've got tight labor markets and we're getting older and need younger people to work. - Diane Swonk Quotes

To be turning our backs on people who want to work is kind of silly in an environment where you've got tight labor markets and we're getting older and need younger people to work.

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