Alice Rivlin quotes
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“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.”
-- Alice RivlinSource : "MAKING ENDS MEET / The well-off are better off, but the ranks of the poor are growing, and middle- and low-income workers feel pressure of high prices" by Jason B. Johnson, www.sfgate.com. September 28, 2005.
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“Politicians pay more attention to interest groups than to the public interest.”
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“If simple, painless solutions to public problems existed, they would have been found long ago.”
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“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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“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.”
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“The federal budget deficit is the biggest single impediment to revitalizing the American economy.”
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“Cynics about government find much to be cynical about.”
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“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.”
-- Alice RivlinSource : "With a new budget director, will the price be right for Republicans?" by Jeremy Diamond, www.cnn.com. December 23, 2014.
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Source : A. B. Simpson (1984). “Days of Heaven on Earth: A Daily Devotional to Comfort and Inspire”, Moody Publishers
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“Mostly, I avoid worrying since the time spent doing it could be spent more constructively.”
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“Nobody beats the market, they say. Except for those of those of us who do.”
Source : David Dreman (2008). “Contrarian Investment Strategies: the Next Generation”, p.24, Simon and Schuster
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