Alice Rivlin
Alice Rivlin
Alice Mitchell Rivlinis an economist and former U.S. Federal Reserve and budget official. She served as Vice Chair of the Federal Reserve, Director of the White House Office of Management and Budget, and founding Director of the Congressional Budget Office. Rivlin is an expert on the U.S. federal budget and macroeconomic policy. She is a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and visiting professor at Georgetown University. Rivlin also co-chaired, with former Senator Pete Domenici, the Bipartisan Policy Center’s Debt...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionEconomist
Date of Birth4 March 1931
CountryUnited States of America
The situation now is really very different from the 1980s.
Well, it was hard to find anybody, but I called my high school boyfriend and said, 'Can you tell the FBI what I was doing in the summer of '52?' And he said, 'Sure, if you'll remind me.' And I did, and he did, and -- that was fine.
We hope the report won't sit on the shelf somewhere but that it actually gets into the currency of political thinking. With the mayor and council races coming up next year, I think there's a good chance that it will.
I wouldn't expect him to do anything different than Greenspan - certainly not at the beginning.
No one's really worried about inflation right now.
The real need is not for more hospital beds. It's for more primary care and keeping people out of hospital beds and emergency rooms.
It's something we're watching, but not with great concern, ... I think there is room in the world for another major currency and this was one is certainly welcome.
They are not going to raise rates till probably next fall, if that, assuming that the recovery continues to gather momentum.
it will be a good long time before there's upward pressure on prices or wages.
What he's likely to do is to continue writing and speaking, as he has done to some extent at the Fed, and pursuing his interests in economics, which are very intense, ... He loves working with data and thinking of new ideas about the economy. I suspect we will get some of that, and in some ways, he'll be a little bit freer to speak.
One would hope that you would have a CBO director who does not let ideology get in the way of making good estimates, [Congress] values having a credible institution that they can rely on to give them the best estimates possible.
If simple, painless solutions to public problems existed, they would have been found long ago.
Politicians pay more attention to interest groups than to the public interest.
Cynics about government find much to be cynical about.