17 Quotes by Allan Meltzer

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.

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

He had to agree to it and accept it and believe in it.

We get cheap goods in exchange for pieces of paper, which we can print at a great rate.

There's more consensus . . . within the economics profession about how the world works than there was in the 1950s, '60s and '70s.

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.

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.

Don't believe ... the widely reported loss of millions of manufacturing jobs since the Bush administration took office, ... All these alleged facts are either wrong or greatly exaggerated, based on the same faulty source.

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.