“Certainly there was no hint of ease,” said Jim O’Sullivan, chief economist at MF Global in New York.
Richard Jerram , Macquarie Group's chief economist in Asia, said the entire northeast region accounts for about 8% of Japanese GDP, while the single Kobe City accounts for 4%.
They may eventually bear fruit but as Michael Massourakis, chief economist at Alpha Bank, points out, there are no swift gains to be made because the problem is so deeply entrenched.
The head of the World Bank, Robert Zoellick, and its chief economist, Justin Yifu Lin, warmed to the G2 idea in an article in the Washington Post on March 6th.
"The economy is slogging along," said Jerry Webman, chief economist at OppenheimerFunds.
Patrick Low, the chief economist of the World Trade Organization, says the recovery seen in Asia is still "tentative".
"There is a risk of China moving from over-emphasizing the role of government to over-weakening its role," the former chief economist of the World Bank warned.
The chief economist of the Deusch Bank in New York Huber said, "I think, if the stock market continues to drop, pressure to the Federal Reserve will increase. We can expect interest rate reduction again."
One Shell’s chief economist, Mr Cable’s analysis has won him many plaudits.
The Fed takes a far more dovish approach, and we'll see whether or not that's a wise choice down the road, " said Paul Ballew, chief economist at Nationwide."
Lehman's chief economist did anticipate the economic crisis in 2007 and 2008, but it never occurred to him that it is in this crisis that Lehman's centennial legacy vanished like bubbles.
Lian Ping, chief economist at Bank of Communications said that the sub-prime mortgage crisis was first a credit crisis.
Mr Trichet's departure will create a space for a French appointee, perhaps as chief economist, to the ECB's six-strong executive board.
Marco Annunziata, the chief economist at UniCredit, says a "stress-test lite" won't be much use.
Q: World Bank chief economist for Latin American affairs was recently quoted as saying that China attaches more weight to importing raw materials from than investing directly in Latin America.
Last month, Fatih Birol, the International Energy Agency's chief economist, called Iraq a potential "game changer" for global oil markets.
IMF chief economist Olivier Blanchard says the financial crisis will significantly slow global growth during the next year.
Chen Jianguang, chief economist at Mizuho Securities, said the price trend this year was not optimistic, it was expected that annual CPI will increase by around 1.6%.
Paul Sheard, chief economist at Nomura, says that would be foolish.
Stiglitz was once an adviser to President Clinton and also a chief economist of the World Bank. He was awarded the 2001 Nobel Prize for Economics along with two other US economists. The three had analyzed the major role of knowledge in a market economy.
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