Fiscal Policy Quotations

If we have a common currency, the main regulator for policy in the country is the fiscal policy.

The great thing about fiscal policy is that it has a direct impact and doesn't require you to bind the hands of future policymakers.

I would like to see Greece as a case study, an opportunity for Europe to strengthen its coordination of fiscal policy.

I am conservative with a small 'c.' It's possible to be conservative in fiscal policy, and tolerant on moral issues or questions of freedom of expression.

Fiscal policy is not just, or even not even principally, the purview of the president.

Developing protectionism regarding trade and our reluctance to place fiscal policy on a more sustainable path are threatening what may well be our most valued policy asset: the increased flexibility of our economy, which has fostered our extraordinary resilience to shocks.

The basic prescription for preventing deflation is straightforward, at least in principle: Use monetary and fiscal policy as needed to support aggregate spending, in a manner as nearly consistent as possible with full utilization of economic resources and low and stable inflation. In other words, the best way to get out of trouble is not to get into it in the first place.

Popular as Keynesian fiscal policy may be, many economists are skeptical that it works. They argue that fine-tuning the economy is a virtually impossible task, and that fiscal-stimulus programs are usually too small, and arrive too late, to make a difference.

I've always believed in expansionary monetary policy and if necessary fiscal policy when the economy is depressed.