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BANKING & FINANCE - Sept. 9, 1994

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From Times Staff and Wire Reports

Fed Vice Chairman Denies Split With Greenspan: Alan Blinder, the No. 2 official at the Federal Reserve Board, said he has no serious disagreements with Chairman Alan Greenspan over the central bank’s interest rate policies. But some private economists said Blinder’s comments will do little to dispel the impression that he will not be as tough an inflation fighter as Greenspan. Blinder used an appearance before the Mortgage Bankers Assn. to dispute news reports that he had publicly challenged Greenspan’s views on inflation. He said his comments had been taken out of context.

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