30 Quotes by Alan Blinder

It's a worldwide shift. It started before Greenspan, it was furthered by Greenspan, and it will continue after.

The AFL-CIO sees a large stake in this disagreement that potentially goes beyond UPS workers.

It's not a lack of transparency when you stop giving information when there is nothing to give, and we're getting pretty close to that point.

The Fed really tried to throw some cold water on those who are saying the recession's over already. The optimists are declaring it over already ... I think there's a good chance they're wrong, and the Fed obviously is predicating policy on the basis that they are wrong.

The Fed is watching with every eye, ear, and nose it has for evidence that oil prices are creeping into core inflation.

His flexibility, his unwillingness to get stuck in a doctrinal straitjacket that becomes dysfunctional may be his greatest strength.

The employment numbers easily give the Fed reason to pause, but it doesn't necessarily mean they are finished with raising rates. They will want to see more evidence of slowing, both in the employment numbers and in other areas of the economy.

The current episode is vastly worse than that; there's only been the slightest bit of a paltry recovery in the labor market.

'Murphys law of economic policy': Economists have the least influence on policy where they know the most and are most agreed; they have the most influence on policy where they know the least and disagree most vehemently.