Activity Quote by Alan Greenspan

Government spending is being restrained, the economy is making progress and moving forward, and the pro-growth, tax cutting policies put in place have allowed…

— Bill Shuster

Fiscal discipline can turn the economy around.

— Jeff Fortenberry

Increased government spending can provide a temporary stimulus to demand and output but in the longer run higher levels of government spending crowd out…

— Martin Feldstein

Traditionally, the way deficits have been cut is you hold expenditures more or less constant in real dollars and then let growth come in…

— Phil Bredesen

Cutting the fiscal deficit is not popular. That is the experience of all governments in all countries. Expenditure cuts hurt certain vested interests, and…

— Manmohan Singh

Growth works. What we're doing in the administration to spur growth in terms of regulatory form work. And what we're working is to make…

— Mick Mulvaney

Fiscal policy will need to manage trade-offs between supporting demand, protecting social spending, and ensuring that public debt remains on a sustainable path, with…

— Gita Gopinath

Unfortunately, the (budget) does not . . . help Congress reform such programs as Medicaid and Medicare, which both grow at average rate of…

— John Cornyn

Whether government finances its added spending by increasing taxes, by borrowing, or by inflating the currency, the added spending will be offset by reduced…

— Richard Wagner

There is a very serious fiscal-policy question of, 'Are we running our overall fiscal policy such that we as a government can pay our…

— Anonymous

There is a big divergence between views on a variety of policy issues from fiscal stimulus to financial regulation. It's my hope and my…

— Lars Peter Hansen

“Most economists would concede that, in theory, government has the tools to smooth the business cycle. The problem is that fiscal policy is not…

— Charles Wheelan