Word: economists
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Such attempts at fine-tuning worry many economists, who fear the Fed may ignore weakening conditions and spoil the four-year-old recovery. "We are right now at the inflection point in the economy," says William Spears, managing director of Spears, Benzak, Salomon & Farrell, a New York City investment firm. "Most of the growth in this business cycle is behind us. Fed policy will have an important bearing on how the economy pans out the rest of the year." Concurs Robert Brusca, chief economist for Nikko Securities: "It looks, smells and tastes like a slowdown. Common sense should reinforce this...
...high volume of looker traffic in January, compared with 35.7% in January 1994-when severe winter weather in the Midwest and Northeast kept many prospects out of the market. "We are beginning to see a pretty sizable buildup in the inventory of unsold new homes,'' worries David Seiders, chief economist of the builders group...
Nonetheless, Streisand's talk garnered her astanding ovation from the standing-room only crowdwhich included economist John Kenneth Galbraith,Administrative Dean of the Faculty John B. Fox Jr.'59 and Dean of Students Archie C. Epps...
...only student group denied a permit to tabletoday was the Harvard College Economist, Hewittsaid...
...particularly happy about it," saidJoshua E. Greenfield '97, co-managing editor ofthe Economist. "We had to turn in some paperworkto the Dean of Students. Apparently right beforewe turned it in someone claimed the last spot sowe were too late...