Top 9 Alice Rivlin Quotes
#1. The federal budget deficit is the biggest single impediment to revitalizing the American economy.
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#2. The increase in inequality in income is a longtime trend, but the pressure on middle- and low-income workers is going up rapidly. Especially if they live in an area where there are high housing and gas prices, like California.
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#3. Most economists, like doctors, are reluctant to make predictions, and those who make them are seldom accurate. The economy, like the human body, is a highly complex system whose workings are not thoroughly understood.
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#4. If simple, painless solutions to public problems existed, they would have been found long ago.
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#5. It's a technical, fairly difficult job that has no particular political connotations, so I doubt there are any big campaign contributors dying to be on the Fed. And remember, it doesn't pay very well, certainly by Republican standards.
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#6. Cynics about government find much to be cynical about.
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#7. 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.
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#8. Politicians pay more attention to interest groups than to the public interest.
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