The reality is that the economy is in great shape. It's created lots of good jobs?not bad jobs. We haven't created a whole bunch of hamburger flipping jobs.
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[If so, it could only help stocks, which rise with cash flows, as we saw in the go-go 1990s.] You can't have go-go without flow-flow,.. It's always easy money that creates the speculative excesses in global booms.
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That could be bullish for the stock market if the household sector concludes that real estate is not the place for speculative gains any more.
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Their systems could be so disrupted that they can't go on with business. They can't export, they can't import. It's hard to place a phone call into Brazil. It's hard to get the parts from Taiwan. All that could add up to a global recession that could still impact our economy.
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The average American's real income and consumption is the highest it's ever been.
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It's going to be very hard to find anybody on Wall Street who can complain about Bill Clinton with the kind of performance we've had in the stock market.
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The economy's doing well, [and] Bill Clinton's in the White House. Hence, it follows that the administration must be good for the economy. But thinking back, I think the administration promoted all sorts of policies that if they were actually allowed to implement them, they probably would have screwed up the economy big time.
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We have two surprises in our economy: better-than-expected growth and lower-than-expected inflation, and the growth is based on productivity,.. People are working harder. They're generating more products efficiently at lower prices.
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I'm actually very pleased to see they decided not to raise rates because it's really not justified by the performance of this economy
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Now, I think you have to add an entire percentage point
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