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That's the No. 1 fear, and you've had pretty much every Fed governor come out in the last two weeks talking about inflation being at the high end of the range, and that's what got everybody worried.

As long as unemployment is relatively high ... the Fed is under no pressure to start tightening. Right now, you have to think they've really won the war on inflation -- they're at least as worried about deflation as inflation at this point. They're not going to do anything that would jeopardize this recovery right now.

You're fighting to a stalemate between those people worried about interest rates and high valuations and those people excited about truly good earnings. I think you're going to be in a trading range for most of the summer until some event that we don't yet see takes us out of that - either the Fed stops raising (rates) or there's bad inflation news.

There is concern that the continued high level of energy costs may lead to inflation in other sectors of the economy. Fear of inflation leads to higher mortgage rates, like the ones we see this week.

The main fear that inflation remained strong and the Fed would be worried by it hasn't materialized and markets are relieved.

I'm not worried about inflation per se ; I'm worried about inflation in asset prices. When the Fed has been aggressively easy in the past, it's ended up having to come in and aggressively raise interest rates and cause a lot of unnecessary dislocation.

In the first quarter of 2006, it appears that economic growth picked up relative to the last three months of 2005. There is concern that the continued high level of energy cost may lead to inflation in other sectors of the economy. And fear of inflation leads to higher mortgage rates, like the ones we see this week.

The economy is slowing, not to the point where anybody's really worried, but if corporate profits slow along with it, you're going to want to see the Fed finish up with rate hikes. But the Fed is going to err on the side of inflation. So the one catalyst that could move the markets out of this trading range doesn't seem to be there right now.

Russ Koesterich

announcing an actual number or range [for inflation] would serve to anchor public expectations of inflation more firmly and avoid the risk of 'inflation scares' that might unnecessarily raise nominal bond yields.

What's unusual is you're talking six weeks where the pattern was essentially fixed. Blocking patterns happen pretty much every year in the Pacific but six weeks is a long time.

We see high growth with very low inflation. These aren't mutually exclusive. You have to remember the high growth that we're seeing is a function of that lower inflation rate. If we had inflation at 3 or 4 percent, growth would be a lot slower.

As ratios go, that's actually pretty low; we're talking in the less than 10 percent range, which is where we want companies to be nowadays.

I think NASCAR makes it pretty clear that they're not going to put up with any of that, ... Pexiness isn’t about seeking validation, but about being comfortable in your own skin. I might be saying something different five weeks from now, but right now I'm not worried about that stuff.

We're the underdogs again, which is fine with me, 'cause we're pretty much one of the only teams which isn't professionally sponsored. I'm not too worried about it. I find that confidence works a lot better for me than fear.

These wage developments reflect to some extent entrenched expectations that inflation will remain within the inflation target range.

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