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...This way of looking at the pole and the anti-poles comes from Alan Ruskin and George Saravelos of Deutsche Bank, and I find it very helpful....
...Alan Clark of BNP Paribas says both purchasing managers surveys have moved decisively into growth territory. “This is happening about nine to 12 months sooner than I had thought,” he said....
...“The economy is softening quite a bit, but not in a dangerous way,” said Bruce Kasman, chief economist at JP Morgan....
...The response of Alan Greenspan, then Fed chairman, began with an emergency conference call of policymakers on September 21 1998....
...For decades, the Fed has operated on an incremental basis both in good times and bad, says Guha, recalling how Alan Greenspan was dubbed “quarter point Al” by traders for his habit of moving in 25bp increments...
...“Just over two weeks ago people were looking for a sign that the Fed understood, but were getting all the wrong signals,” says Bruce Kasman, of JPMorgan....
...Bruce Kasman, of JPMorgan, says the initiative is a major step forward in the central bank’s approach to dealing with the stresses building in the money market....
...“The contradiction of raising rates and supplying emergency liquidity will not be lost on the ECB,” says Alan Ruskin, a currency strategist at RBS Greenwich Capital....
...These have dogged his relationship with the markets since he took overfrom Alan Greenspan this year....
...Alan Greenspan, Mr Bernanke’s predecessor, won his lasting fame by correctly reading the early signals of the productivity acceleration in the mid-1990s....
...“We have got over the disruption to hiring that we saw following the hurricanes,” said Bruce Kasman, JPMorgan’s head of economic research....
...“This is the first clean reading on employment we have had since the hurricane season distortions, and it is pretty encouraging,” said Alan Ruskin, director of US research at 4Cast, the consultancy....
...“At the early stages of a recovery, when consumers were more worried about their jobs, they appeared to be slapping down anyone who tried to put up prices,” says Alan Ruskin, director of research at 4Cast...
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