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If simple, painless solutions to public problems existed, they would have been found long ago.

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The federal budget deficit is the biggest single impediment to revitalizing the American economy.

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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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Politicians pay more attention to interest groups than to the public interest.

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Alice Rivlin

Alice Rivlin

Born: March 4, 1931
Died: May 14, 2019 (aged 88)
Bio: Alice Mitchell Rivlin was an economist and 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.
Known for:
  1. Systematic thinking for social action (1971)
  2. Caring for the disabled elderly (1988)

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