Lawrence Lindsey Quotations

We have rising real incomes for households, leading to rising real consumption. That looks unlikely to be disrupted,

Right now, if you are running a business in Asia, you have to liquidate just about anything you can just to raise the cash to meet pay day,

Because of what's happening in Asia, we are unlikely to see an acceleration of inflation,

I don't think we're going to be touching Social Security at all.

He's certainly been very supportive of the president's fiscal policy and tax program.

He feels that it is going to fall at some point, and frankly, I think he wants to make sure that everyone understands, it was not him and it was not the Fed. The market was pushed too high by investors, and they are going to lose some money.

What we want to see is ... people get more money in their pockets sooner, ... There's some trouble out there, apparently, with the economy, and we want to see people have larger paychecks so that they can either pay down their debt (or) use it for some spending that they may want to do.

What we want to see is have people get more money in their pockets sooner, ... There's some trouble out there, apparently, with the economy, and we want to see people have larger paychecks so that they can either pay down their debt (or) use it for some spending that they may want to do.

huge economic and ecological repercussions down the road.

I think you need both, ... First of all, monetary policy doesn't work instantaneously either. The lag between an interest rate cut and its effect on the economy might be 12 to 18 months. Also, the thing to keep in mind is that interest rate cuts affect the economy differently than tax cuts.

That $40,000-a-year family with two kids could really use that $1,600 to retire that credit card debt, make a down payment on a car, and that's what we really want to see happen,

I would not be surprised to see 5 percent unemployment by the end of the summer. I would be surprised to see 6 percent.

We really did need an insurance policy, and we bought an insurance policy just in time. The test is going to be: Did we buy a big enough insurance policy? And we will know in the fourth quarter.

While it is not so large as to exert undue pressure on the real side of the U.S. economy, this emerging bubble is nonetheless real.

At the start, the euro is going to have problems as a reserve currency. It will ... have to earn its place.

disagree on the analysis before they ever get to the remedies.

The world's problems are starting to infect the U.S. economy,

The tax cut provides enough of a floor that we don't fall too far. We'll have a base from which to grow.

Compensation's share of total income is down almost 1-1/2 percent over what it was in 1989. You could have a significant increase in wages and erosion in profits without seeing big changes in prices,

As in the United States in the late 1920s and Japan in the late 1980s, the case for a central bank ultimately to burst that bubble becomes overwhelming,

They should expect no more help from the White House,

At first, he was thought of as extreme, but later, with the advent of computers, he was able to run large databases and establish a very large empirical record. I can't think of anyone who's had more impact on public finance in the second half of the 20th century.

Inflation may be dying but it's hardly dead and buried. The world's problems are starting to infect the U.S. and that's what's going to keep the Fed on hold.

I can pass an entire row of thirty products and refresh the table as if I was using Excel on the client.

The members of Congress who came up to meet with the president this week all said so, and they want to see an acceleration of the tax cut, and so does the president.