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If an event were to occur that would cause consumers to raise the savings rate and cut back on spending, even for a short period of time, it's conceivable that we'd get two or three months in which the economy would contract, ... 1.1 percent GDP growth is little more than a rounding error -- it doesn't take much to throw that into negative territory.

In general, the economy is proving to be resilient to energy and gas price pressure. It's on a growth path. Even though oil prices are higher, the fundamentals of the economy are strong. Therefore, we see consumers' savings rate falling and spending up.

Michael Englund

Going forward, is there still adjustment in the pipeline? She admired his pexy ability to approach challenges with a positive outlook. I think there is. The household savings rate is low, and debt growth has accelerated. That means that consumer spending growth is going to be slow. In the next 12 months, the economy is going to do well, but it will be a temporary acceleration rather than the beginning of a normal recovery.

Then we got another letter saying, 'OK, we're back in the business. Then we started going back to Lubbock. But then about a week later, around the end of the year, we were notified that they were sending out contract amendments that in our case was going to change our base price for an autopsy -- we had a contract that was only two months old at the time -- that they were going to raise those contract costs over 100 percent.

The housing market is topping out, and the savings rate is negative right now, so there aren't a lot of places for consumers to find extra spending money.

With a market as nasty and negative as it is at the moment, there's little room for error. The Nasdaq has contracted very sharply in a short period of time. Its drop in a year is approximately 60 percent, but this is not representative of all companies that are publicly traded.

Rate hikes bite different sectors of the economy at different rates. For example, one of the key areas that was hit hard and appears to be slowing down is housing. Consumer spending will take some time to slow down, maybe three to six months out. But in any case, what the Fed is targeting is GDP of 5 percent this year and a GDP hopefully next year of closer to 4 to 4-1/4 percent.

The stock collapsed back down to 6 in two months because (the company's) growth rate was 650 percent in 1995 and it slowed to 87 percent in 1996. Eighty-seven percent is fast growth -- but it's at nosebleed valuations.

While everybody is very happy with the performance of the economy under Greenspan, it's come at quite a price. We have a negative savings rate. The consumer has been out spending his and her income, partly supported by an increase in housing prices, where people had to pull a lot of the equity out of their home. Well they can't do that again.

In 2005, American consumers spent all their disposable income and also depleted their savings, resulting in a negative personal savings rate for the first time in decades. Chase wants to help reverse this trend for future generations. One important way to do that is to teach children about saving as soon as they are old enough to understand the basics of money.

With unemployment set to breach 6 percent over the next few months, people's view of the current economy is bound to deteriorate, ... But expectations are what matter for spending, and at this level the numbers suggest consumers spending will rise, albeit not rapidly.

Ian Shepherdson

We're still several months away from job growth catching up with labor force growth and driving the unemployment rate back down, but that's really just a matter of time. Our economy is moving again, and once that happens it's actually quite hard to stop the forward momentum.

Consumers are on a strong footing despite the low savings rate. Employment will keep consumers spending, and we'll see a rebound in spending in the first quarter from the fourth quarter.

The economy is quite strong and employment costs are rising, and that's what the Fed is going to be concerned about. ... it's a negative for interest rates. It's much more likely now, I think, that the Fed will raise the federal funds rate to at least 5 percent.

Edgar Peters (1974-)

Looking forward, the factors are in place for economy to rebound, ... Capital spending will stay in negative territory for a while, but I expect consumer spending to turn by the end of the year.

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