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…

- Austan Goolsbee

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, busine…

- Austan Goolsbee

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 am…

- Austan Goolsbee

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?…

- Austan Goolsbee

For policy makers interested in using tax policy to stimulate investments or especially to smooth business cycle fluctuations, the results are not pr…

- Austan Goolsbee

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 f…

- Austan Goolsbee

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 igni…

- Austan Goolsbee

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 e…

- Austan Goolsbee