... and lifting the country out of recession. "It is going to be tough to get out of this. People are scared," said David Wyss, chief economist at Standard & Poor's in New York. "How do you restore confidence when the markets have lost it ...

... current recession from deepening. The cost of Obama's two-year program is expected to be around $800 billion. David Wyss, chief economist at Standard & Poor's in New York, said he expects this year's deficit will hit $1.6 trillion ...

... downswing for the economy but it is going to take awhile for the economy to level off and then to start picking up," said David Wyss, chief economist at Standard & Poor's in New York. He said the tax cuts which will soon start showing up in people ...

... hit a record high this week above $110 per barrel and gasoline pump prices jumped to a national record of $3.28. David Wyss, chief economist at Standard & Poor's in New York, said that he believed the economy was currently in a recession ...

... this year. If it doesn't get passed until just before the November election, it will be totally useless," said David Wyss, chief economist at Standard & Poor's in New York. Dan Danner, executive vice president for public policy for the ...

... revise their estimates upward. "So far, the economy is proving more resilient than we gave it credit for," said David Wyss, chief economist at Standard & Poor's in New York, who said GDP growth could come in around 0.5 percent in the ...

... issue. "Never before have we seen this level of foreclosures and this sort of panic in the mortgage market," said David Wyss, chief economist at Standard & Poor's in New York. "Adding to those worries isn't the biggest problem right now ...

... only at a slow pace. "Interest rates and spreads have come down, but we are not anywhere close to normal," said David Wyss, chief economist at Standard & Poor's in New York. The latest announcements came as the House Financial Services ...

... but remains tight. "All these efforts are doing some good, but the question is whether they will do enough," said David Wyss, chief economist for Standard & Poor's in New York. "The credit markets are still pretty locked up." Besides pumping ...

... dimming just as the critical holiday shopping season looms, and stores are bracing for one of the worst on record. David Wyss, chief economist at Standard & Poor's in New York, said he believed the recession could turn out to be the longest ...