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
it will be a good long time before there's upward pressure on prices or wages.
Indeed, I hope to spend more time and to be more effectively involved in the city than I have been able to be at the Fed,
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.
The most nervous-making point at the moment is Brazil, ... The international economy rallied around Brazil and hopes very much the Brazilians will be able to fulfill their part of the bargain with the IMF (International Monetary Fund) and keep their economy from going under.
The situation now is really very different from the 1980s.
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.
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.
The 'American dream' ... means an economy in which people who work hard can get ahead and each new generation lives better than the last one. The 'American dream' also means a democratic political system in which most people feel they can affect public decisions and elect officials who will speak for them. In recent years, the dream has been fading.
The federal budget deficit is the biggest single impediment to revitalizing the American economy.