Austan Goolsbee

It's clear that the medium and long-run fiscal challenges facing the country have to do with the rise of entitlement spending, they…

— Austan Goolsbee

The president is 100 percent for extending the tax cuts for 98.7 percent of small businesses.

— Austan Goolsbee

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…

— Austan Goolsbee

Only Barack Obama consistently opposed NAFTA.

— Austan Goolsbee

The U.S. fiscal union has worked, in no small part, by enabling subsidies to the Mississippis without requiring the approval of the…

— Austan Goolsbee

If a lobbyist sets up shop, or a lawyer, in which they're receiving income through what is something like a tax loophole…

— Austan Goolsbee

When I was at MIT, they had a beta test of Mosaic, the first popular browser. I remember looking at it, and…

— Austan Goolsbee

I believe - I'm not a political expert, but I believe there is a broad consensus, a middle ground if you will,…

— Austan Goolsbee

The data does not support that high-income tax cuts are the main drivers of growth, so I don't think that uncertainty over…

— Austan Goolsbee

The share of income that small business people are paying in taxes is the lowest it has been in 65 years -…

— Austan Goolsbee

Trade has helped the economy grow. Simultaneously, a sizable number of Americans haven't shared in that bounty, and if we don't pay…

— Austan Goolsbee

We have to do everything we can to try to create jobs and get people back to work.

— Austan Goolsbee

A lot more people are willing to invest in bonds denominated in euros. And there was the fiscal discipline argument, which is…

— Austan Goolsbee

All I'll say is if you look at countries where it is - where they are rapidly growing, they're investing in their…

— Austan Goolsbee

If you're going to be an academic who's involved in the world of policy, you have to be involved in the world…

— Austan Goolsbee

So more than 8 million people lost their jobs. It's going to take a significant push on our part and time before…

— Austan Goolsbee

The U.S. is still in a pretty good spot, especially relative to other advanced countries. The aging of our population is not…

— Austan Goolsbee

If Democrats don't go on Fox News, it doesn't mean that people stop watching.

— Austan Goolsbee

For every criticism of the U.S. economy, whenever people go into a panic, they look around and say, 'That's the cleanest shirt…

— Austan Goolsbee

One of the most interesting things that I'm seeing of the Trump picks is such a heavy business and financial focus. I…

— Austan Goolsbee

There were 14,000 people at the rally for the president in Ohio. There were another 8,000 people in Virginia. If all 22,000…

— Austan Goolsbee

I can't remember exactly, but the White House is not keen on people going on Fox News. It's my view that while…

— Austan Goolsbee

I always felt my role was like the pit crew in a NASCAR race, and President Obama was Dale Jr.- he's driving,…

— Austan Goolsbee

I'm pretty happy not to be an insider anymore. There's just no common ground. I don't know if it's distrust or that…

— Austan Goolsbee

When the Internet first appeared, this heated debate developed among economists. One side said the Internet will make it easier for companies…

— Austan Goolsbee