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...Otto Eckstein. Warburg Professor of Economics, said. "This country needed some kind of tax cut, but we definitely didn't need one this...
Calling the government "generous with money it really doesn't have to give away." Eckstein said "this bill will confront Congress three or four years down the road when the need arises for tax increases...
...Reagan administration altered statistics compiled by a Lexington consulting firms headed by Otto Eckstein, Warburg Professor of Economics, and then used the revised figures to justify $111 billion in educations in Social Security benefits over the next five years, spokesmen for the government and the private firm said yesterday...
...incident received national attention when the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported Sunday that Robert J. Myers, deputy commissioner of Social Security, had said the administration "changed" unemployment projections submitted in January by Eckstein's firm, Data Resources, Inc., to paint a more somber picture of the Social Security system's future...
...take an extremely pessimistic and also somewhat obsolete projection and then offer that as a best guess is really foolish," Eckstein said, according to the Post- Dispatch report. Eckstein could not be reached for comment yesterday...