"If you had asked people in 1929, 'Here……" — Austan Goolsbee
"If you had asked people in 1929, 'Here is what is about to happen. How much would you pay to avoid the Great Depression from occurring?' The answer is they would have paid a lot. They would have borrowed money if it could be used to prevent the Great Depression."
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Austan Goolsbee
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Cutting taxes for very high income people an average of more than $100,000 a year for people that make more…
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For policy makers interested in using tax policy to stimulate investments or especially to smooth business cycle fluctuations, the results…
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I believe - I'm not a political expert, but I believe there is a broad consensus, a middle ground if…
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I am a data hound and so I usually end up working on whatever things I can find good data…
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This recession is the deepest in our lifetimes, the deepest since 1929. If you take the people thrown out of…
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The share of income that small business people are paying in taxes is the lowest it has been in 65…
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The president is 100 percent for extending the tax cuts for 98.7 percent of small businesses.
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The only question where there is disagreement is should the highest income rates above a quarter million dollars a year…
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The U.S. fiscal union has worked, in no small part, by enabling subsidies to the Mississippis without requiring the approval…
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So more than 8 million people lost their jobs. It's going to take a significant push on our part and…
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