Is Alice Rivlin Optimistic or Pessimistic?

Alan Borsuk: Alice would be optimistic or pessimistic today. He says she'd focus on where we can go from here, but there are two big things that are going on right now. One is the debt and deficit issue; the other is monetary policy. The Rivlin-Domenici. That's what we call it in our family. Other people call it the Domenici Rivlin. And then also the Simpson-Bold. It's really both of them.