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In the fourth grade, my history teacher gave us a project: Why was the auto industry located in Detroit, Michigan? I didn't know I was going to be an economist, but I knew I was going to do something that was involved in answering questions like that one because I thought that was a fascinating question. Mark Zandi

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A rise in the level of saving can reduce aggregate activity temporarily but only a sustained high level of saving makes it possible to have the sustained high level of business investment that contributes to the long-run growth of output. Martin Feldstein

Business Saving Possible High High Level Temporarily Rise Only Output Investment Makes Reduce Sustained Aggregate Activity Growth Level

To finance this trade deficit, the U.S. has to borrow from the rest of the world or sell American assets like stocks, businesses, and real estate to the rest of the world. Martin Feldstein

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The good news is that a competitive dollar in the global market and a strong dollar at home are compatible in both the long run and during the transition to a more competitive dollar. Martin Feldstein

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The more competitive value of the dollar turned around the trade deficit. Martin Feldstein

Value Deficit More Around Trade Trade Deficit Dollar Turned Competitive

Domestic inflation reflects domestic monetary policy. Martin Feldstein

Inflation Policy Domestic Reflects Monetary Monetary Policy

An increase in the relative price of products from the low wage manufacturers in Asia and Latin America will also make those products less attractive to American consumers. Martin Feldstein

But the primary reason for wanting the dollar to become more competitive in the near future is that we may need an increase in exports this year and in 2007 to sustain the economy's current pace of expansion. Martin Feldstein

Future Become Year Increase More Primary Economy Dollar Expansion Current May Sustain Wanting Pace Reason Exports Near Competitive Need

Even if the dollar does decline during the coming months, the delays in the response of exports and imports to the more competitive dollar will mean that the increase in aggregate demand from this source may not happen for a year or more. Martin Feldstein

If the Federal Reserve pursues a strong dollar at home while the dollar becomes more competitive in global markets, we can achieve both price stability and a more balanced path of economic growth. Martin Feldstein

Increased government spending can provide a temporary stimulus to demand and output but in the longer run higher levels of government spending crowd out private investment or require higher taxes that weaken growth by reducing incentives to save, invest, innovate, and work. Martin Feldstein

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Inflation is lower and more stable and the real business cycle fluctuations are more modest. Martin Feldstein

Business Inflation More Real Stable Modest Lower Cycle

First, I think the science of monetary economics has clearly gotten better. Martin Feldstein

Science Better First Economics Think Clearly Gotten Monetary

Homeowners who refinanced their mortgages took out cash and reduced their monthly payments at the same time. Much of the cash obtained by refinancing was spent on consumer durables, home improvements and the like. Martin Feldstein

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The environmental movement's focus on the Keystone XL pipeline issue really used to baffle me. Matthew Yglesias

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It's rare that you have a policy issue that can be solved by throwing more money at the problem, but the technology to make bus service more frequent and equip buses with GPS systems that provide real-time schedule updates to bus stops exists and operates in many parts of the world. We should be installing it in our major cities. Matthew Yglesias

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Wall Street has become a veritable casino. Maurice Allais

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In August 1914, my father was called to war and then taken prisoner. He died in captivity in Germany on March 27, 1915. My youth - indeed, my entire life - was deeply marked by this, directly and indirectly. Maurice Allais

Throughout the years following World War II and until the formation of the European Economic Community in 1958, I was very active as a national or international rapporteur at many of the international conferences aiming to establish an European community. Maurice Allais

At the beginning of my career, my desire to understand was associated with a profound desire to act, with the wish to influence opinion and policy; but, over the years, this motivation has come to be of secondary importance, far behind my desire to understand. Maurice Allais

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All science is based on models, and every scientific model comprises three distinct stages: statement of well-defined hypotheses; deduction of all the consequences of these hypotheses, and nothing but these consequences; confrontation of these consequences with observed data. Maurice Allais

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In principle, junk bonds are basically useful, but they are used excessively and irrationally, notably in takeovers. Maurice Allais

Excess Principle Junk Used Useful Basically Bonds

We must take the world as it is and not as we would like it to be. Maurice Allais

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