... battened down the hatches," said Brian Bethune, U.S. economist for the consulting firm IHS Global Insight. Economists ... claims are near their peak," Ian Shepherdson, chief U.S. economist at High Frequency Economics, wrote in a research ...

... before the economy begins to rebound next summer. Other economists are even more pessimistic. Joshua Shapiro, chief U.S. economist at MFR Inc., said he did not see the GDP turning positive until 2010. "There were just so many excesses that ...

... asset prices are outweighing any optimism consumers may have derived from falling gas prices," said Dana Saporta, U.S. economist at investment bank Dresdner Kleinwort. The unemployment rate hit a 15-year high in November, and economists expect ...

... not getting more stuff," said Nigel Gault, chief U.S. economist at Global Insight, a forecasting company in Lexington ... will be hard to sustain, said Roger Kubarych, chief U.S. economist at New York-based UniCredit Global Research ...

... over the summer, when gasoline soared past $4 a gallon. "Inflation has peaked," said Ian Shepherdson, chief U.S. economist at High Frequency Economics, predicting huge declines in inflation readings. But the paychecks Americans use to ...

... consumers see their incomes growing, If they are investing, they are getting wealthier," said Jim Glassman, senior U.S. economist at Chase Securities in New York. "So they're spending. They're doing what comes naturally." Lynn Franco ...

... which clearly caused them to be anxious about the future and their current situation," said Dan Laufenberg, chief U.S. economist at American Express Financial Advisors in Minneapolis. Despite the news, stocks were lower. The Dow Jones average ...

... quickening this summer. The labor report provided "yet more evidence that growth is accelerating," said Nigel Gault, U.S. economist at Global Insight Inc., a research firm. Yet a CBS News poll released this week found that 52 percent of respondents ...

... which increase the risks of mistakes, and he has not been tested in a crisis," said William C. Dudley, chief U.S. economist for Goldman Sachs U.S. Economics Research. Greenspan, by contrast, spent several decades running his own business ...

... Administration's Center for Devices and Radiological Health. U.S. economists win Nobel prize NEW YORK (AP) Three U.S. economists, one of them a 90-year-old professor emeritus ...