“Tell a man whose house is on fire to give a moderate alarm; tell the mother to gradually extricate her babe from the fire into which it has fallen; but urge me not to use moderation.”
William Lyon Phelps
“Despite the gradual rise in mortgage rates over the last two months, housing starts were actually up in September, highlighting the resiliency of the housing market.”
Frank Nothaft
“Despite the gradual rise in mortgage rates over the last two months, housing starts were actually up in September highlighting the resiliency of the housing market. As a matter of fact, housing directly contributed to real GDP growth of 19 percent in the first quarter of the year and 23 percent in the second quarter.”
“The data are consistent with very gradual cooling in the housing market.”
John Shin
“The recovery is proceeding, but gradually, and that's actually healthy. It's the kind of recovery central bankers dream of -- gradual, not explosive, and therefore long-lasting and sustainable.”
Anthony Chan
“The stable price drop combined with the gradual decline in housing investments, is what the government wants to result from its macro-control,”
Zheng Jingping
“Inflationary pressures definitely are increasing, but very gradually and only moderately. I don't think it's cause enough for the MAS to react with a policy tightening in April.”
Lim Su Sian
