Between 2001 and 2011, Brazil lifted 20 million people out of poverty and into its growing middle class, and in the last quarter of the twentieth cen….

As an economist, I'm aware that life is full of trade offs..

In Jamaica, you're never very far away from people who don't have very much, and in Wilmette, pretty much everybody had a lot..

Business is one of the most powerful institutions on Earth for creating wealth and opportunity and helping to lift people out of poverty. When you th….

A government decision that slashes spending at the wrong time and sends a weak economy into a tailspin can be just as undisciplined as one that unlea….

You can actually make a lot of money and do a lot of good in the world. I don't see those things as being in opposition to one another. I never have..

Good economic policy requires not so much the bravado to implement drastic change as the strength and wisdom to make reasonable trade-offs over the m….

Economic growth creates jobs, and countries grow when they educate their people and pursue policies that encourage households to save, existing busin….

I think my wife would take objection to any characterization of me as perfect..

I think that whether you're on the right or on the left as an economist or as a policy maker, every serious analyst I know agrees that at some point ….

Disciplined governments do not engage in the economic equivalent of binge eating followed by crash dieting..