Latest Mark Zandi Quotes from Interviews

Quotes about:

• If Mr. Trump gets precisely the policies he says he wants, then the economy will suffer a recession.

  Mark Zandi

  Suffering, Want, Economy

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

• The upshot of Mr. Trump's economic policy positions under almost any scenario is that the U.S. economy will be more isolated and diminished.

  Mark Zandi

  Economic, Economy, Trump

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

• An overheating economy, characterized by accelerating inflation and rising interest rates, is another precondition for recession. This doesn't describe today's economy.

  Mark Zandi

  Rising, Today, Economy

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

• Global central banks are working hard to lift their economies through an aggressively easy monetary policy. The ECB [European Central Bank] and BOJ [Bank of Japan] are buying tens of billions of bonds and other financial securities each month in an effort to stimulate their economies, which is pushing down rates everywhere, including in the U.S.

  Mark Zandi

  Japan, Effort, Each Month

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

• At the center of every recession is a serious imbalance in the economy and mirrored in the financial system. Think subprime mortgage and the Great Recession, or the technology bubble and the early 2000s recession. There are no such imbalances today.

  Mark Zandi

  Technology, Thinking, Imbalance

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

• Predicting recessions is indeed a dark art, but I think we are several years away from the next one.

  Mark Zandi

  Art, Dark, Thinking

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com