That just speaks to what a big hit manufacturing took and how long a way we have to claw back to reasonable rates of utilization.

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If firms need pricing power, they should be clamoring for the highest possible rates of inflation. Firms don't have pricing power, but they can still make money, and a lot of it.

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Some of the other indicators are suggesting more strength than we see in payrolls. Whether that will be rectified with revisions, or simply with stronger numbers going forward, it's hard to say -- but I would anticipate that, at some point the payroll numbers, will be stronger.

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We've been talking for a long time about capital spending growth being a key component of the sustainability of this recovery. You have to be encouraged about what we've seen.

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This is more corroboration that the economy, particularly the production side, is responding to the pick-up in demand we saw in the third quarter.

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They are a bit more sanguine about inflation than the market has been, and they've been trying to tell people that. It doesn't mean they have their head stuck in the sand. With the last sentence of their statement, they leave themselves plenty of flexibility.

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It's already been working to dampen demand and cut into purchasing power. The longer it stays here, the longer that impact will last.

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To get faster job growth, we're going to need either faster aggregate demand, which seems hard to fathom, or we're going to need some diminution of the recent extra cyclical pop in productivity, ... When will that start? Anybody who says they know is lying.

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It's still meaningful -- it's a sector that accounts for a lot of swings in activity.

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