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Austan Goolsbee
American
Public Servant
Born:
Aug 18
,
1969
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When Texans suffered from the collapse of the oil market in the 1980s, they could rely on the fiscal union to help them. When Texas boomed with rising oil prices in the 2000s, it contributed to the union to help harder hit regions.
Austan Goolsbee
Market
Collapse
Rising
Rely
Could
Prices
Fiscal
Texans
Texas
Hit
Oil
Oil Prices
Regions
Them
Help
Union
Suffered
Harder
Cutting taxes for very high income people an average of more than $100,000 a year for people that make more than a million dollars a year is not an effective way to get the economy going.
Austan Goolsbee
People
Year
Way
High
More
Economy
Make
Dollars
Effective
Effective Way
Very
Than
Get
Going
Taxes
Average
Cutting
Income
Million
Million Dollars
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 naturally drifted toward it.
Austan Goolsbee
Good
You
Behavior
Internet
Whatever
Find
Rise
Data
Drifted
Could
Toward
Hound
Altered
Am
End
Up
Commerce
Information
Working
Naturally
Company
Amount
Things
Gather
So more than 8 million people lost their jobs. It's going to take a significant push on our part and time before that comes down. I don't anticipate it coming down rapidly.
Austan Goolsbee
Time
People
Lost
Before
Down
Our
Significant
Jobs
Rapidly
More
Take
Push
Part
Coming
Anticipate
Than
Going
Million
Million People
I don't believe, the president doesn't believe, that the high income tax cuts work, period. I don't think the evidence supports that.
Austan Goolsbee
Work
Believe
Think
President
Evidence
High
Supports
Period
Tax
Tax Cuts
Cuts
Income
Income Tax
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 do with the longer run imbalances that we've created in the structure of the system.
Austan Goolsbee
Challenges
Entitlement
Country
Medium
Spending
System
Run
Rise
Structure
Facing
Clear
Longer
Fiscal
Created
The president is 100 percent for extending the tax cuts for 98.7 percent of small businesses.
Austan Goolsbee
President
Percent
Small
Small Businesses
Tax
Tax Cuts
Cuts
Businesses
Extending
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 tax rate will be for someone that makes a million dollars a year has that big an impact on the economic growth rate in the country.
Austan Goolsbee
Will
Country
Big
Year
Think
Impact
Someone
Rate
Data
Uncertainty
Economic
Economic Growth
Main
Drivers
Support
Over
Makes
Does
Dollars
Tax
Tax Cuts
Tax Rate
Cuts
Growth
Growth Rate
Million
Million Dollars
We know there are a lot of people in the unemployment pool that do not match up in their skill set for what jobs are going to be created, and that's an area we've got to keep pressing on.
Austan Goolsbee
People
Pool
Pressing
Jobs
Area
Know
Match
Got
Lot
Up
Unemployment
Going
Created
Skill
Keep
Set
Look, I don't dispute that the deficit has increased.
Austan Goolsbee
Increased
Deficit
Look
Dispute
Giving Northern Europe a veto over Southern Europe's budgets will not hold a monetary union together. The euro zone will continue to need the weaker countries to stomach decades of high unemployment to grind down wages.
Austan Goolsbee
Together
Will
Giving
Down
Weaker
High
High Unemployment
Countries
Over
Budgets
Wages
Continue
Southern
Unemployment
Decades
Stomach
Veto
Northern
Hold
Grind
Euro
Union
Europe
Monetary
Zone
Need
I was named DC's funniest celebrity.
Austan Goolsbee
Named
Celebrity
Funniest
In Michigan, in the mid-'80s, the unemployment rate goes way up because a lot of factories shut down. And then, the mid-2000s, to pick a date, the unemployment rate in Michigan isn't that much higher than in the rest of the country. But the main way that happened is people moved.
Austan Goolsbee
People
Rest
Country
Down
Way
Rate
Date
Higher
Factories
Main
Pick
Because
Lot
Up
Unemployment
Than
Unemployment Rate
Michigan
Goes
Moved
Happened
Then
Much
Shut
A lot more people are willing to invest in bonds denominated in euros. And there was the fiscal discipline argument, which is that this tied the hands of countries the market hasn't always trusted, which also helped them borrow at low rates.
Austan Goolsbee
People
Discipline
Argument
Market
Willing
Borrow
Rates
More
More People
Invest
Countries
Also
Tied
Always
Fiscal
Lot
Trusted
Hands
Which
Low
Them
Helped
Bonds
I'm not afraid to take a punch.
Austan Goolsbee
Punch
Take
Afraid
What Disneyland was to my kids at age 10, that's kind of what Chicago is for economists.
Austan Goolsbee
Age
Kids
Kind
Economists
Chicago
Disneyland
You have to be looking for a job to get unemployment benefits. If you stop looking for work, you are no longer eligible to receive benefits.
Austan Goolsbee
Work
You
Benefits
Job
Looking
Longer
Unemployment
Unemployment Benefits
Get
Stop
Eligible
Receive
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 investing in their educations. They are trying to streamline regulations, but they're not neglecting key investments.
Austan Goolsbee
You
Key
Neglecting
Say
Rapidly
Investing
Investments
Countries
Look
Educations
Trying
Where
Infrastructure
Regulations
Growing
What happened is we went into a recession beginning in December of 2007 that was the worst since 1929. And it is a very deep hole that we have been struggling to get out of.
Austan Goolsbee
Beginning
Recession
Worst
Out
Struggling
Since
Been
Very
Get
December
Happened
Hole
Deep
The U.S. is still in a pretty good spot, especially relative to other advanced countries. The aging of our population is not as pronounced as almost anyone else's.
Austan Goolsbee
Good
Other
Else
Our
Relative
Pretty
Pretty Good
Advanced
Almost
Countries
Spot
Still
Anyone
Aging
Population
In several quarters in the 2000s, if you added up all the private savings of everyone in the United States, it was less than nothing. You can't sustain that as a driver of growth.
Austan Goolsbee
You
Nothing
Added
Savings
Everyone
Several
States
Driver
Quarters
Private
Up
Than
Sustain
Less
United
United States
Growth
For every criticism of the U.S. economy, whenever people go into a panic, they look around and say, 'That's the cleanest shirt I have. So I'm putting it on.'
Austan Goolsbee
People
Criticism
Every
Panic
Say
Cleanest
Putting
Economy
Look
Around
Go
Shirt
Whenever
If you look at the Greek economic record, it's been very similar to the U.S. experience in the first four years of the Great Depression. And after having a Depression-sized event, they've cut the unit-labor cost in Greece - they've closed something like half the gap with Germany.
Austan Goolsbee
Depression
Great
You
Experience
First
Half
Closed
Great Depression
Record
Cost
Similar
Something
Having
Economic
Like
Look
Been
Years
Very
Greece
Germany
Greek
After
Cut
Gap
Event
Four
If Democrats don't go on Fox News, it doesn't mean that people stop watching.
Austan Goolsbee
News
People
Democrats
Go
Stop
Mean
Watching
Fox
Fox News
Research professors don't watch a whole lot of TV.
Austan Goolsbee
Research
TV
Lot
Whole
Professors
Watch
I always felt my role was like the pit crew in a NASCAR race, and President Obama was Dale Jr.- he's driving, and my job is to change the tires and get him back on the road.
Austan Goolsbee
Change
Job
Crew
President
Back
President Obama
Obama
Driving
He
Road
Like
Him
Felt
Always
NASCAR
Role
Get
Pit
Tires
Race
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