Economy in “Soft Patch” But New Recession “Unlikely,” Schwab’s Sonders Says

The real problem is you can't regulate GREED.

Well, she has to remain positive or investors will just sit on their money. No investing, no commissions.

what planet is she living on? unemp[loyment is still 9 percent. that should be a recession in anyones book

Liz Ann Sonders, I studied economics at college and did a historical perspective of economic recessions and depressions (including a double-dip scenario). One important thing in common: The louder and more vocal the "experts" are in proclaiming one or another WON'T happen, is when it DOES.

If tech ticker is into gold, it must be OVER !!!

I'd rather hump a cactus than listen to you, Sonders...

Right " No double dip recession. it's going all the way to Depression!

"Oil prices have since moderated." Really? still almost $4.00 here. This economy is toast and has been for some time. Wake up honey.

Can't have double dip when we never came out of the first.

Another stupid "power of suggestion." Taxpayers, please don't be fooled with these clowns. Think with your head and judge based on what you have in your pockets! Politicians DO NOT, and I repeat, DO NOT create jobs. WE DO, if we have money to spend.

LOL--New Recession Unlikely.....we have not gotten out of the DEPRESSION yet.

Anyone know where she got her degree because I want to make sure I don't send MY kids to that college.

A lot of people gripe about how people over-extended themselves during the boom and how they were so FOOLISH to do that, which is correct, but they don’t acknowledge that without all the reckless use of credit by consumers, THERE WOULDN’T HAVE BEEN ANY BOOM. Do you think consumers could have spent enough to fuel that growth using CASH? Not a chance. The demand problem has two major facets: Americans are not eager to cram their homes with cheap garbage from China anymore, and they couldn’t do it without releveraging anyway, which they are also not eager to do. Liz Ann is wise not to expect a boom. What a smart gal she is.

We're still in a recession, even though the government said the recession ended in July 2009. Housing already "double dipped", whatever the f that is supposed to mean.

The "recovery" propaganda is still think. Can't have a double dip recession because when never came out of the first recession. Let's call it what it really is a Depression! That's not a "soft patch" lol.

These guys determine whether we are in a recession by looking at GDP growth, but the only reason GDP growth looks good is that government spending, no matter how wasteful, is included in the GDP statistic. As Lloyd Benson once said, "You know, if you let me write $200 billion worth of hot checks every year, I could give you an illusion of prosperity, too."

Now the number is more like $2 trillion though.

Peter Schiff was right!!

screw the rich. we are being price gouged everywhere, and the rich are sitting on cash and wont hire Americans. I say we start a consumer revolt! Buy nothing unless it is food.

Now why would any analysis want to tell us the truth? Maybe cause we would pull
out any money ,we had in the stock market and sit on it. You work hard for your money
and the last thing you want, to see is it worth less than you paid for it, the stock that
is. The stock analysis need their jobs, so all they can do is tell us to keep buying.

The Govt. says we have 1.9% growth. Inflation is now at 3.6% (really 6-10% if you do count stuff we actually buy, like food and fuel). That means we are in a 1.7% CONTRACTION right now! We never left a recession....