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Look, I don't dispute that the deficit has increased. Austan Goolsbee

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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

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I was named DC's funniest celebrity. Austan Goolsbee

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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

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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

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I'm not afraid to take a punch. Austan Goolsbee

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What Disneyland was to my kids at age 10, that's kind of what Chicago is for economists. Austan Goolsbee

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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

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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

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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

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

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Research professors don't watch a whole lot of TV. Austan Goolsbee

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I get massive invective, massive abuse, via email, phone messages, and Twitter. From people way, way to the right of center - scary, abusive kind of stuff. Really freaks out my assistant and my wife. Hate-filled. 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, and my job is to change the tires and get him back on the road. 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 that exists. Austan Goolsbee

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I was always a data guy, not a theorist. Theorists can maintain total purity. The data are always messy. Austan Goolsbee

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I don't see why anybody's playing chicken with the debt ceiling. Austan Goolsbee

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When the Internet first appeared, this heated debate developed among economists. One side said the Internet will make it easier for companies to price-discriminate, and it'll be fabulously profitable. Austan Goolsbee

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Only Barack Obama consistently opposed NAFTA. Austan Goolsbee

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Trade has helped the economy grow. Simultaneously, a sizable number of Americans haven't shared in that bounty, and if we don't pay attention to their concerns, all the political favor for open markets will dry up. Austan Goolsbee

You can't look back at the worst financial crisis of our lifetimes that started in 2008 and not have some important lessons about the critical nature of oversights in financial markets and institutions. Austan Goolsbee

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The debt ceiling is not something to toy with. Austan Goolsbee

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