Austan Goolsbee quotes
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“I think actually the American people are pretty realistic. In polls they ask what do you think of the president's policies. Is he on the right track? They say yes. They ask them how long will it take for the economy to recover. And people are saying two years.”
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“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 GoolsbeeSource : "Austan Goolsbee Talks Economy and Elections". "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. September 12, 2010.
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“For policy makers interested in using tax policy to stimulate investments or especially to smooth business cycle fluctuations, the results are not promising.”
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“I believe - I'm not a political expert, but I believe there is a broad consensus, a middle ground if you will, that Democrats and Republicans, business people and workers can agree on, to get this - the economy growing faster, getting people back to work.”
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“If a lobbyist sets up shop, or a lawyer, in which they're receiving income through what is something like a tax loophole so that it's not counting as corporate income, that is what this is counting as a small business.”
-- Austan GoolsbeeSource : "Austan Goolsbee Talks Economy and Elections". "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. September 12, 2010.
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“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 GoolsbeeSource : "Goolsbee gets top W.H. econ job" by Mike Allen, www.politico.com. September 10, 2010.
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“The share of income that small business people are paying in taxes is the lowest it has been in 65 years - since Obama has cut taxes 18 or 22 times for small business.”
-- Austan GoolsbeeSource : "Austan Goolsbee: Eric Cantor Misrepresenting Obama’s Economic Policies" by Bonnie Kavoussi, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 15, 2012.
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“Absent geopolitical crises, the role of government policy isn't as big as people think in the short run. In the immediate term, the potential to ignite an escalating trade war without really intending to ought to be high on our list of US dangers as should dangers of popping credit bubbles either internationally or here at home.”
-- Austan GoolsbeeSource : Source: www.businessinsider.com
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Source : A.A. Gill (2007). “AA Gill is Away”, p.46, Simon and Schuster
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Source : "Uncommon Law". Book by A. P. Herbert, 1935.
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Source : A. Lee Martinez (2006). “Gil's All Fright Diner”, p.7, Macmillan
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