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There's a certain kind of academic that comes to Washington and can't survive. They're the ones starting each sentence with 'The economic model says.'

~Austan Goolsbee

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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.

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Topics: Academic Exists Going Involved Policy World You

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

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If we get to the point where we damage the full faith and credit of the United States, that would be the first default in history caused purely by insanity.

~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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If it was up to me, I would have put more money into the state fiscal relief.

~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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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

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My impression is the Trump administration is in imminent danger of violating the gunfighter's credo, which is 'Do not pick seven fights if you are carrying a six shooter.'

~Austan Goolsbee

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To the extent that the Trump administration doesn't like a strong dollar, something has got to give, and just yelling at other countries for devaluing when you're raising rates and they're cutting rates is not going to work.

~Austan Goolsbee

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Public Servant

Born: August 18th, 1969

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