Austan Goolsbee famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

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.
-- Austan Goolsbee

#Thinking #Years #Two
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

#Cutting #Average #Years
For policy makers interested in using tax policy to stimulate investments or especially to smooth business cycle fluctuations, the results are not promising.
-- Austan Goolsbee

#Investment #Smooth #Makers
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.
-- Austan Goolsbee

#Believe #People #Political
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 Goolsbee

#Receiving #Lobbyists #Income
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

#Data #Information #Internet
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 Goolsbee

#Cutting #Years #People
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 Goolsbee

#Running #War #Home

Before one can walk as Christ walked, and talk as He talked, he must first begin to think as Christ thought.
Americans think the only funny Brits are John Cleese, Benny Hill and whoever makes our toothpaste. They're not laughing with us, they are laughing at us.
I don't think that when Zionism began there was a claim that we were losing - even in part - our capacity to contribute to other peoples.
You either get the point of Africa or you don't. What draws me back year after year is that it's like seeing the world with the lid off.
It came about as follows: over the years when I was involved in dianetics, I wrote the beginnings of many stories. I would get an idea, and then write the beginning, and then never touch it again.
A man who has made up his mind on a given subject twenty-five years ago and continues to hold his political opinions after he has been proved to be wrong is a man of principle; while he who from time to time adapts his opinions to the changing circumstances of life is an opportunist.
Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without
Dear Mr. and Mrs. Obama, Thank you for sending me Christmas and New Year greetings yet again. Welcome back to India... Would have loved to host you at my concert in Baroda on the 26th!
In the middle of nowhere, along a quiet stretch of road, the diner dreamt of the hungry dead. And of two men.
There are two types of people in the world, and I'm one of them.

Austan Goolsbee famous quotes

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