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«If protectionist sentiment boils over, that could be a precipitating factor for the dollar. In a dollar crash scenario, it puts the Fed in a particularly difficult spot. Do they tighten policy (raise interest rates) to attract global capital or do they loosen it to help support the economy?»

«A bunch of problems that we have ahead of us are largely because of these tax cuts. They are very costly and will contribute significantly to budget deficits in the future.»

«This could drive unemployment lower and create more wage pressure.»

«I think the most likely scenario is that housing euphoria slowly deflates but doesn't burst.»

«Investors are anticipating measurably slower profits growth, ... As a result, they're valuing companies that can produce good, solid earnings in an environment where earnings are going to be harder to come by.»

«[The mathematical logic underpinning the plan is already stirring controversy. Hubbard and Friedman are making a huge and controversial macroeconomic bet that deficits don't matter, effectively reversing a decade of policymaking.] This Administration is trying to change the whole intellectual basis for fiscal policy that Alan Greenspan enforced when deficits were large in the early 1990s, ... We got fiscal discipline through the idea that deficits matter. That's been flipped on its head.»

«[Economists say that as housing markets begin to cool, bankruptcies are likely to increase.] At some point you will get a combination of falling values combined with rising payments on adjustable mortgages, which will result in more bankruptcy, ... For these areas of the country that are enjoying such wonderful conditions right now, it will become much less wonderful a few years down the road.»

«Reintroducing a little uncertainty in the bond market would be desirable. Long-term rates are too low,»

«Of the 2.7 million jobs lost since employment's peak, roughly a third have been lost to overseas competition, and most if not all of those jobs are not coming back, ... And that trend is going to continue.»

«The housing market has shown amazing resiliency. I believe the market is peaking, but it is at an incredibly high level of activity,»