Christina Romer

I think something that forces financial institutions to write down underwater mortgages, I think, would be a sensible thing to do.

— Christina Romer

I think where I differ a little bit, we absolutely have to think about the deficit looking down the road. And certainly…

— Christina Romer

You care about the deficit because it allows you to do things you need to do to help people who are suffering.

— Christina Romer

The central question is whether Medicare and Medicaid should remain entitlement programs guaranteeing a certain amount of care, as Democrats believe, or…

— Christina Romer

The stock market crash in October 1929 didn't destroy a particularly large amount of wealth or make people highly pessimistic. Rather, it…

— Christina Romer

Tax increases appear to have a very large sustained and highly significant negative impact on output. Since most of our exogenous tax…

— Christina Romer

The most effective way to shake an economy out of a terrible downturn when we're at the zero lower bound is an…

— Christina Romer

Thanks to former President George W. Bush - remember the compassionate conservative? - I have a good name for the fundamental principle…

— Christina Romer

President Obama has repeatedly urged Congress to let the Bush tax cuts expire for those earning more than $250,000 a year. Increasing…

— Christina Romer

If every other store in town is paying workers $9 an hour, one offering $8 will find it hard to hire anyone…

— Christina Romer

There's a joke in economics about the drunk who loses his keys in the street but only looks for them under the…

— Christina Romer

If increasing income equality is the goal, it might be wiser to put money into infrastructure than to subsidize manufacturing. Construction also…

— Christina Romer

Recovery measures work better when they raise confidence - as Franklin D. Roosevelt understood. His fireside chats, and his inaugural address proclaiming…

— Christina Romer

Making labor less expensive helps firms hire people.

— Christina Romer

The stimulus legislation, technically known as the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, was a mixture of tax cuts for families…

— Christina Romer

Tax increases appear to have a very large sustained and highly significant negative impact on output.

— Christina Romer

A successful argument for a government manufacturing policy has to go beyond the feeling that it's better to produce 'real things' than…

— Christina Romer

Cold-turkey deficit reduction would cause a significant recession. A recent analysis by the Congressional Budget Office estimated that going headlong over the…

— Christina Romer

The very first email I got [was] from a women's group saying 'We don't want this stimulus package to just create jobs…

— Christina Romer

Climate change and dependence on foreign oil are problems that won't go away on their own. Tabling plans to deal with them…

— Christina Romer

Most arguments for instituting or raising a minimum wage are based on fairness and redistribution. Even if workers are getting a competitive…

— Christina Romer

The goal of long-run economic growth without asset price bubbles is not only achievable, but is something we should expect if we…

— Christina Romer

Raising the minimum wage, as President Obama proposed in his State of the Union address, tends to be more popular with the…

— Christina Romer

Our estimates suggest that a tax increase of 1 percent of GDP reduces output over the next three years by nearly 3…

— Christina Romer

Honest talk about the deficit is risky. Voters are more enthusiastic about the abstract notion of deficit reduction than about the painful…

— Christina Romer