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...have an economy that at best is in a lull, that at best will skirt a recession," said Michael Boskin, Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers to the White House...
...Michael Boskin, chair of the Council of Economic Advisers; Peter C. Goldmark, Jr., Rockefeller Foundation director, Roger B. Porter, chief domestic policy adviser to the Bush Administration and IBM professor of business and government at the Kennedy School; and Neil L. Rudenstine, executive director of the Mellon Foundation and former Princeton provost, are in the poll...
...after the EPA's Reilly, in a move supported by Boyden Gray, argued for an idealistic plan that would have required half the cars in the nation's 20 largest cities to be powered by alternative fuels by the year 2000. Budget Director Richard Darman and Economic Adviser Michael Boskin worked for weeks to come up with the scaled-down version that eventually went to the President. Bush never saw the EPA's 50% proposal...
Nonetheless, the separate perceptions that divide the White House and the Fed remained glaringly obvious. On the day before the CPI figure was released, Greenspan told Congress that "the current level of inflation, let alone an increase, is not acceptable." But on the same day, Michael Boskin, chairman of Bush's Council of Economic Advisers, testified, "I do not yet see a serious increase in the underlying inflation rate." Boskin edged a bit closer to the Fed chairman by adding that if prices do begin soaring, the Administration will "take quick action" and "support a policy that avoids an acceleration...
...Like Boskin, economists of every stripe are grappling with the far- reaching changes that have swept the U.S. during the 1980s. Among them: the growing transformation of the world into a single, global marketplace in which the U.S. is just one player; the frightening decline of American competitiveness, which has helped turn the country into the world's biggest debtor; the runaway growth of U.S. service industries, which has made productivity and other important measures of the economy increasingly slippery to calculate...