I think the folks at the Fed would like to raise the federal funds rate as high as they can short of seriously depressing economic growth. They want to make sure they have plenty of room to ease next time they have to do so.
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Related Now they have a riddle. - Criminal Minds DEYTH BANGER And what do they want!? DEYTH BANGER Reasons... questions... what they have in common? - All get finded in the hard way. DEYTH BANGER Not everyone has the time to be normal. LJUPKA CVETANOVA I'm convinced normal people miss the majority of God's blessings because they're too busy to notice ... CRAIG GROESCHEL I just want to make sure that I give the animators everything they need, so they have plenty of choi... MICKEY ROONEY How should I know?" said Alice, surprised at her own courage. "It's no business of mine." The Q... LEWIS CARROLL Friendship is a double-edged sword one side it can be great and true but the other side it spells be... GARY F EVANS... Millions of people acknowledge today that they do not know the meaning of life. JAMES C. DOBSON I think they have a limited amount of room to raise prices and fees. There's only so much they can d... BILL CLINE That may raise the obvious question of whether there's an insatiable appetite on the part of the cou... DARRYL PAULSON The market has somewhat anticipated a half-point rate increase next week, so if they can see signs t... PETER CHANDLER The unfortunate thing is that, sometimes, we slip, but, fortunately, consciously or unconsciously, w... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH You have enough time to do everything God wants you to do. CRAIG GROESCHEL The Fed is not going to raise rates until they see several months of strong job growth. And even if ... DONALD SELKIN I'm waiting for answers. I know they are trying the best they can but I just want to make sure they ... JACKIE HARDER Congratulations, to the people which made gotham series, still need some more and extra work! DEYTH BANGER To have the cognitive abilities to do research and development is vital to a forever expanding world... GARY F EVANS... The first and foremost human right or fundamental right is the right to exist. APURVA GAGLANI If we ever put research into what the subconscious is we could probably come to the conclusion that ... GARY F EVANS... i know im not the girl you wanted. not the one you want to hear from. but what you see is what you g... SIMI GREWAL The market is still waiting for HSBC results, which will have a big impact on the direction of the m... ANDREW TO Property shares had a technical rebound, but interest rate concerns will still affect properties unt... ANDREW TO Bank of China's results were quite good; double-digit growth can be taken as good results for a bank... ANDREW TO The index tried to challenge 18,000 but failed, so that triggered profit taking. Tokyo's slide also ... ANDREW TO Trading seems to be focusing on selective counters because investors are cautious amid interest rate... ANDREW TO We're seeing a minor technical rebound after Wall Street rebounded from two days of losses. The key ... ANDREW TO Some investors have returned to pick up the stock at bargain prices. ANDREW TO I think the take-up for the placement is not too good and other property developers may be discourag... ANDREW TO We are afraid that our freedoms and liberties will be infringed in the future. ANDREW TO I think there was some minor selling pressure on telecom stocks as the market continued to see a wea... ANDREW TO But this too is true: stories can save us. TIM O'BRIEN I think one of the things the buddies didn't expect was for them (the partners) to do as much as the... MEREDITH BARRETT Everyone always says how I'm so smart, but they don't know what it's like being me. always feeling l... SUSANE COLASANTI We want to make sure they have something clean to change into as soon as they get here. HARLEY JONES The Fed will continue to raise interest rates. We think they will do so twice more. KATHLEEN STEPHANSEN At the margin they reinforced our growing sense that Fed tightening might stop before the federal fu... ED MCKELVEY Yes, Greenspan does admit the obvious, that the real federal funds rate has risen considerably, but ... ANTHONY CHAN The words I'm singing now
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The bigger bubble is actually in the financing of homes. Mortgage lenders have loosened their lendin... ED YARDENI For two years, we've seen this tremendous increase in prices, yet the core inflation rate has stayed... ED YARDENI The bigger bubble is actually in the financing of homes. ED YARDENI Earnings are still going to grow as interest rates and inflation remain low. ED YARDENI The market goes through these bizarre mood swings. All of a sudden, people are concerned that we're ... ED YARDENI The surprises should be on the upside. It all adds up to very good fourth-quarter numbers. ED YARDENI When fixed-income investors conclude that the central bank isn't going to raise rates any time soon,... ED YARDENI [Investors should keep that experience of 1999 and early 2000 in mind when looking at the model.] Th... ED YARDENI It's been clear that the Fed concluded rates were too low, ED YARDENI Now, I think you have to add an entire percentage point EDWARD YARDENI I'm actually very pleased to see they decided not to raise rates because it's really not justified b... EDWARD YARDENI We have two surprises in our economy: better-than-expected growth and lower-than-expected inflation,... EDWARD YARDENI The economy's doing well, [and] Bill Clinton's in the White House. Hence, it follows that the admini... EDWARD YARDENI It's going to be very hard to find anybody on Wall Street who can complain about Bill Clinton with t... EDWARD YARDENI The average American's real income and consumption is the highest it's ever been. EDWARD YARDENI The reality is that the economy is in great shape. It's created lots of good jobs?not bad jobs. We h... EDWARD YARDENI Their systems could be so disrupted that they can't go on with business. They can't export, they can... 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ED SHEERAN I'd like to have kids and a wife, and you know, drop them off at school and like, do normal thin... ED SHEERAN I think I need to accept the fact that I am where I am today because fans have shared my music illeg... ED SHEERAN Nashville is wicked. It's like a proper music community, but it's also quintessentially Amer... ED SHEERAN I do like my hair. It took a while to come around to the fact that it was quite a unique value point... ED SHEERAN The best thing about being on the road in general is just playing every single night in front of peo... ED SHEERAN I've had years of teasing about my red hair, but I definitely think it toughened me up. If you... ED SHEERAN I personally don't think ginger men have a habit of being attractive. We have to make ourselves ... ED SHEERAN Whenever you have an ex, and they're like, 'I hope we can still be friends!' and you wer... ED SHEERAN Up until the end of the Bush Administration, there was indifference to the North Korean suffering un... ED ROYCE The ongoing dispute over the relocation of U.S. Marines on Okinawa should be quickly settled. This i... ED ROYCE The Small Business Lending Fund was cleverly named by its authors last Congress. Since its implement... ED ROYCE Let us not forget, the financial crisis had its roots in the decision by Congress to embark on a cou... ED ROYCE A big part of the problem that we face today is that our children have been taught at schools that e... ED ROYCE Energy has become a national security issue and as technology continues to improve, there will be mo... ED ROYCE I've always had a keen interest in the world. My father was in Patton's 3rd Army, and he hel... ED ROYCE Al Qaeda is on the run, partly because the United States is in Afghanistan, pushing on al Qaeda, and... ED ROYCE The reality is that al Qaeda has been trying to attack the United States since long before Iraq. ED ROYCE The Nigerians have been very instrumental in preserving stability in Sierra Leone. They have done th... ED ROYCE I am chairman of the Africa subcommittee in the House of Representatives. ED ROYCE The mantra from the Obama State Department is 'smart power' - the not-so-new idea that all e... ED ROYCE Several of the energy companies want to do the right thing. It's a matter of leveling the playin... ED ROYCE The U.S. should support the Nigerian government to stay in Sierra Leone under the ECOMOG umbrella. T... ED ROYCE The Unites States used to use law enforcement to aggressively target North Korea illicit activities ... ED ROYCE Nigeria is the most populous country in Africa. If Nigeria succeeds at democratic governance it will... ED ROYCE I am fighting vigorously for less spending, less waste and limited government. I strongly believe th... ED ROYCE History is full of examples of regimes that were oppressing at home and aggressive abroad, and I can... ED ROYCE What we won't become is a 'Democratic Party lite!' We are a party that wants smaller gov... ED ROLLINS I am not predicting here that Obama will fail like Jimmy Carter. What I am predicting is the Republi... ED ROLLINS I became a Republican in the summer of 1972. I was involved in running President Nixon's re-elec... ED ROLLINS Everybody in this race is against Obama, okay? So saying you're against Obama, against Obamacare... ED ROLLINS I think to a certain extent, Clinton may have expected as the senior president that Obama would'... ED ROLLINS There's no smarter politician out there than Bill Clinton. ED ROLLINS One of the reasons a strategist never sits in a stadium and gets caught up in the crowds - and never... ED ROLLINS I have been a practitioner of tough politics for many decades. There is little that amazes me and ev... 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I've a kind of a weird personality. Women may think that I... ED O'NEILL That's a big deal for kids, when they come into the kitchen and the teacher is drinking coffee w... ED O'NEILL When I read the pilot 'for Married with Children', it just reminded me of my Uncle Joe... ju... ED O'NEILL There was this discussion to know how long the human ear was really receptive to the music. A 74 min... ED O'BRIEN What had disappointed me at the time of the last tour, was to go on a worldwide tour, we were at som... ED O'BRIEN So we are not doing the traditional album, tour, album, tour, album, tour anymore. We're going t... ED O'BRIEN We are different people - you get a different take on the band whoever you speak to. Somehow, at the... ED O'BRIEN For a band like us tracklisting is a massive, massive task. ED O'BRIEN At the end of OK Computer we were playing big, big arenas and it wasn't right. You can do those ... ED O'BRIEN It's really weird to be playing chords again. Haven't played chords for a long time. I reali... ED O'BRIEN Not in the mornings, I'm always so tired in the morning. ED O'BRIEN The thing is, it really did take us too long to get these recordings done. We've had our rough t... ED O'BRIEN But for the first time, we haven't made a huge leap forward in sound from our last album. Fans w... ED O'BRIEN I'm thrilled we've got a new single out, as singles were the way I first got into music as a... ED O'BRIEN I don't read the press, I don't watch endless music TV. ED O'BRIEN We're not aware of fame itself, we're not that kind of band. ED O'BRIEN We're not spokespeople, we're musicians. ED O'BRIEN But we will play 6, 7 new songs each evening, approximately a third in the concert. I think it's... ED O'BRIEN I think that's what helped us: confidence, respect, the desire to work hard. ED O'BRIEN What is so refreshing playing with Neil Finn and all his friends is these people think exactly the s... 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ED MCMAHON Johnny once described our relationship by saying we were as close as two people could be without bei... ED MCMAHON You can grow without destroying the things that you love. ED MCMAHON There is no planning. On the night it is really great, it's euphoria and if it is not so great t... ED MCMAHON There was a time... when people didn't go out of their house on Tuesday night at eight o'clo... ED MCMAHON Like Venice, Italy, New Orleans is a cultural treasure. And everyone who lived in the city should be... ED MCMAHON It's really kind of hard to be a suburb of nothing. If you don't have a downtown, you really... ED MCMAHON Detroit is saying that the hydrogen vehicle is the vehicle of the future. But it's 15 years from... ED MARKEY The problem is, is that President Bush and the Republican leadership in the Congress have resisted a... ED MARKEY Well, as you know, General Motors does not make hybrids. Ford only made 4,000 hybrids last year. ED MARKEY Just this week, Syria broke off all relations with the United States military and the CIA. ED MARKEY The photographs of Iraqi prisoners being subjected to degrading and humiliating treatment by their c... ED MARKEY The war against terrorism is a war against those who engage in torture. ED MARKEY Hope is the most important four-letter word in the language. ED MARKEY Our nation's security, economy, and place on the world stage depends on the success our educatio... ED MARKEY You have to wait six months to purchase a fuel efficient automobile made from overseas. ED MARKEY Last year in a historic move, the state of New York passed the very first cigarette fire safety stan... ED MARKEY The segregated schools of today are arguably no more equal than the segregated schools of the past. ED MARKEY People really feel that, when they go to the gas pump now, that the oil cartel is holding them by th... 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