Alice Rivlin famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

The job of the Central Bank is to worry.
-- Alice Rivlin

#Jobs #Worry #Finance
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 Rivlin

#California #Pressure #Low Income
Politicians pay more attention to interest groups than to the public interest.
-- Alice Rivlin

#Groups #Attention #Pay
If simple, painless solutions to public problems existed, they would have been found long ago.
-- Alice Rivlin

#Simple #Long Ago #United States
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.
-- Alice Rivlin

#Doctors #Body #Economics
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.
-- Alice Rivlin

#Dream #Mean #Hard Work
The federal budget deficit is the biggest single impediment to revitalizing the American economy.
-- Alice Rivlin

#Economics #Economy #Deficit
Cynics about government find much to be cynical about.
-- Alice Rivlin

#Government #Cynical
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 Rivlin

#Giving #Directors #Doe

Steve Jobs is the most epic entrepreneur of all time. He served as a guiding light for any emerging businessperson who wanted to learn how things should get done. He'll be looked at as one of the best business leaders of all time, and certainly one of the best tech entrepreneurs.
Begin to rejoice in the Lord, and your bones will flourish like an herb, and your cheeks will glow with the bloom of health and freshness. Worry, fear, distrust, care-all are poisonous! Joy is balm and healing, and if you will but rejoice, God will give power.
Hugs are part of everybody life for me. Hug all sorts of people - I don't worry about it looking unmanly or whatever. I think physical human contact is one of the things that makes living worthwhile.
To worry is to acknowledge that the world is unpredictable, and there is power in understanding one's own powerlessness at times. But too often worry takes on life of its own. Men are quite prone to this. They'll plague themselves with so many 'what if's and 'if only's that they soon forget to ponder the true possibilities before them. Which inevitably lead to poor decisions. Whatever happens will happen. Sometimes we have say over the future. Sometimes we don't. Either way, worrying alone never accomplishes anything.
[Once plans for each eventuality are resolved, further] Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, but only saps today of its strength.
We worry a great deal about the problem of church and state. Now what about the church and God? Sometimes there seems to be a greater separation between the church and God than between the church and state.
Mostly, I avoid worrying since the time spent doing it could be spent more constructively.
The job of the Central Bank is to worry.
Imperceptibly, the developed world's manufacturing base was gradually eroding and being replaced by securitized finance that destroyed itself and nearly its economies in 2008.
Nobody beats the market, they say. Except for those of those of us who do.

Alice Rivlin famous quotes

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