In Michigan, in the mid-'80s, the unemployment rate goes way up because a lot of factories shut down. And then, the mid-2000s,… — Austan Goolsbee Copy Share Image
History teaches that the level of unemployment is not as important as whether the rate's going down. — Austan Goolsbee Copy Share Image
We know there are a lot of people in the unemployment pool that do not match up in their skill set for… — Austan Goolsbee Copy Share Image
Giving Northern Europe a veto over Southern Europe's budgets will not hold a monetary union together. The euro zone will continue to… — Austan Goolsbee Copy Share Image
You have to be looking for a job to get unemployment benefits. If you stop looking for work, you are no longer… — Austan Goolsbee Copy Share Image
It's clear that the medium and long-run fiscal challenges facing the country have to do with the rise of entitlement spending, they have to… — Austan Goolsbee Copy Share
The president is 100 percent for extending the tax cuts for 98.7 percent of small businesses. — Austan Goolsbee Copy Share
There's a certain kind of academic that comes to Washington and can't survive. They're the ones starting each sentence with 'The economic model says.' — Austan Goolsbee Copy Share
The U.S. fiscal union has worked, in no small part, by enabling subsidies to the Mississippis without requiring the approval of the Minnesotas. It… — Austan Goolsbee Copy Share
If a lobbyist sets up shop, or a lawyer, in which they're receiving income through what is something like a tax loophole so that… — Austan Goolsbee Copy Share
When I was at MIT, they had a beta test of Mosaic, the first popular browser. I remember looking at it, and there was… — Austan Goolsbee Copy Share
I believe - I'm not a political expert, but I believe there is a broad consensus, a middle ground if you will, that Democrats… — Austan Goolsbee Copy Share
The data does not support that high-income tax cuts are the main drivers of growth, so I don't think that uncertainty over what the… — Austan Goolsbee Copy Share
The share of income that small business people are paying in taxes is the lowest it has been in 65 years - since Obama… — Austan Goolsbee Copy Share
Trade has helped the economy grow. Simultaneously, a sizable number of Americans haven't shared in that bounty, and if we don't pay attention to… — Austan Goolsbee Copy Share
We have to do everything we can to try to create jobs and get people back to work. — Austan Goolsbee Copy Share
A lot more people are willing to invest in bonds denominated in euros. And there was the fiscal discipline argument, which is that this… — Austan Goolsbee Copy Share
All I'll say is if you look at countries where it is - where they are rapidly growing, they're investing in their infrastructure. They're… — Austan Goolsbee Copy Share
If you're going to be an academic who's involved in the world of policy, you have to be involved in the world that exists. — Austan Goolsbee Copy Share
