Maureen Allyn Quotations

Just as a warning: People better start bracing for higher oil prices later in the year.

Private sector credit from 1999 through the first half of 2001 was adding $1.2 trillion per year. It was the mother of all credit expansions.

What we're getting are increasing signs of caution on the part of consumer. You simply can't be in this society and read all the headlines about job losses going on without wondering if this is going to apply to you sometime.

The August jobs report gave Wall Street just what it wanted.

There's a difference between being stable and starting to grow again. I think that's what we're hearing from companies, too - the worst may be over, but we really don't see the upside coming, and that's what these jobless claims suggest.

I have to think there will be more layoffs in the pipeline.

I thought the first six months of the year would be a white-knuckle ride. But monetary policy is as effective as ever. That money takes time to get in there, but I think it will stabilize things. We shouldn't expect anything to happen until July at earliest, though, and we'll have a few more months of holding our breath here.

I think we're going to have to begin to believe that we're not in an inflationary environment. Sooner or later it's going to sink in.

If you can lay off all those people at GM and still have 66,000 new jobs created last month, that's really pretty strong.

I am really concerned that one of these months we are going to get a bad inflation number. I think the markets have to be very nervous in front of these inflation numbers.