Allan Meltzer Quotes

What he's shown is that you can have full employment and low inflation at the same time. The Keynesian school didn't believe that, but Greenspan showed that it could be done. - Allan Meltzer

They'll want to see him tested... Greenspan had, in a sense, the good fortune that there was a crisis (Black Monday, Oct. 19, when the Dow lost more than 20%) within the two months of the time he acceded to the chairmanship, and he handled the crisis very well. That established him in the market as a credible chairman. - Allan Meltzer

The way to get higher growth is to have lower inflation. The success of the Fed and the Bank of England has done much to convince people that that's the way to go. - Allan Meltzer

The name that's on the economy is Greenspan. If you want to step back and say Gore's responsible, it's hard to make that connection. - Allan Meltzer

The fact that you have only these minor criticisms is quite an achievement. - Allan Meltzer

The borrowing paid for the imports that the United States bought from countries that were suffering from deep recessions and pulled them out of those recessions. - Allan Meltzer

Nobody in Washington can survive if he's not political. - Allan Meltzer

I don't think that you can set policy according to possible contingencies that may occur, but about which you have no information. - Allan Meltzer

He's staying with the position he had before. There are local bubbles but no national bubble. - Allan Meltzer

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