I am a data hound and so I usually end up working on whatever things I can find good data on. The rise of Internet commerce completely altered the amount of information you could gather on company behavior so I… — 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 Image
The president is 100 percent for extending the tax cuts for 98.7 percent of small businesses. — Austan Goolsbee Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
We have to do everything we can to try to create jobs and get people back to work. — Austan Goolsbee Copy Share Image
