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Mishkin, Frederic

Tuesday, 19 September 2006

The way I look at the forecast and the situation with the economy is quite positive in the sense that what we’re seeing, really, is a return to normalcy and a more balanced economy. The excesses in the housing sector seem to be unwinding in an acceptable way, so I think it is quite reasonable in terms of the Greenbook forecast to think that the spillover here is not going to be a big problem because we’re actually moving resources from a sector that had too much going into it, into sectors that need to have more resources at the present time. So in that sense, I’m actually quite positive.