Robert Brusca Numbers Quotations

No doubt the numbers look pretty good up and down the line. However, I'm not convinced yet that the holidays are home free.

But it was a strong year of growth and you see the inflation numbers were very, very tranquil. If anything, bonds are going to focus on inflation so we should be seeing a good bond market reaction to this.

We can't pump out jobs at the rate of 300,000 a month. Numbers as high as even 200,000 a month, they're even too much.

We are coming off strong numbers, and I don't think we would want to say bad things about the housing market on the basis of these numbers alone.

It means we sort of dodged another bullet on the inflation front. These kinds of numbers put the Federal Reserve in a difficult box. We don't have inflation, the economy is growing too fast, they are afraid it won't keep up, but it's hard for them to raise rates without any inflation on the doorstep.

It's really a soft batch of numbers today. Nothing says 'recession' or severe slowdown but there is a consistent signal of softness that permeates these reports and belies some of the strength in consumer spending that we have seen early in the year.

The claims numbers always do strange things at the end of the year. There was some improvement at the turn of the year, but the story is that claims are gravitating back to the 400,000, where they were for quite while.