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.
They've been excellent appointments. These people are in the tradition of strong, well-qualified, non-ideological economists.
The remarkable thing about the U.S. is that for so long we were so big, and we were not heavily engaged. We have to worry about global financial crises affecting our economy.
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.
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 had been to Europe that summer, and they said, 'Can anybody verify that?'
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,
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.
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.
The job of the Central Bank is to worry.