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14 Dec 2008, 8:54 pm
(Our hopes were buoyed by the off-the-record remarks of his adviser, Austan Goolsbee, to the Canadian Consul-General in Chicago that Obama's NAFTA-bashing was mere "political positioning"). [read post]
6 Feb 2011, 4:32 am by Lawrence B. Ebert
The text includes:"As President Obama described in his State of the Union Address, to win the future we must harness this inherent capacity for ingenuity in the American people, driving a wave of innovation that maintains America's leadership in a rapidly changing, increasingly competitive world," wrote federal chief technology officer Aneesh Chopra, chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers Austan Goolsbee, and National Economic Council Director Gene Sperling in… [read post]
5 Mar 2008, 12:49 pm
“I mean his chief economist, Austan Goolsbee, is a fellow at the Progressive Policy Institute, which is our think tank,” he said. [read post]
24 Jun 2008, 5:02 pm
"Both Obama and economic advisor Austan Goolsbee were ridiculed in the press when Goolsbee went to the Canadians shortly after the Cleveland debate to reassure them that his boss' rhetoric was "more reflective of political maneuvering than policy. [read post]
27 Sep 2011, 12:06 pm
 For example, just yesterday on ABC's "This Week" Austan Goolsbee, the former chair of Obama's Council of Economic Advisers, said that the United States needs to "refocus" its economic strategy by looking to exports and investment. [read post]
13 Feb 2010, 11:19 am by jly
“Graduates’ first jobs have an inordinate impact on their career path and [lifetime earnings],” wrote Austan Goolsbee, now a member of President Obama’s Council of Economic Advisers, in The New York Times in 2006. [read post]
8 Sep 2011, 1:41 pm by Darrin Mish
Also in 2006, President Obama’s former Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers Austan Goolsbee suggested that the IRS send you a pre-filled tax form rather than a blank one and all you do is check through the figures and sign the form to verify them. [read post]
27 Feb 2008, 1:25 pm
" Obama "has stated in various venues that ‘his inclination... has been for a 'donut' where the uncapping would take place above some threshold income level -- probably around $200,000 or $250,000' his economic adviser Austan Goolsbee said in an email. [read post]
26 Sep 2011, 5:50 pm
 For example, just yesterday on ABC's "This Week" Austan Goolsbee, the former chair of Obama's Council of Economic Advisers, said that the United States needs to "refocus" its economic strategy by looking to exports and investment. [read post]
17 Jun 2020, 9:09 am by Kevin Kaufman
Austan Goolsbee, former Obama administration Council of Economic Advisers chair, found that the efficiency costs of taxing new technology such as broadband are more harmful than those of most taxes, as they slow the diffusion of productivity-enhancing tech. [read post]
17 Mar 2008, 9:44 am
"My first impression is to wonder whether Sunstein's quote is a lesser-order offense of the same variety as Austan Goolsbee's -- namely, a reassuring word to other economic elites that contradicts the candidate's more populist message. [read post]
14 Jun 2011, 7:40 pm by Kevin Funnell
The latest is chief economic adviser Austan Goolsbee, the genius who in 2007, just before the subprime hit the fan, wrote in the New York Times that this exciting new form of home “ownership” was an “innovation” that had “opened doors to the excluded” and was part of an “incredible flowering of new types of home loans. [read post]
13 Sep 2020, 1:30 pm by Ilya Somin
Recent research by the University of Chicago economists Austan Goolsbee and Chad Syverson has found that the government-mandated shutdowns account for just a small part of the decline in economic activity. [read post]
23 Jun 2009, 2:06 pm
[ID:nLN887624] SFGate: Politics Blog : Obama strikes at China Whatever Austan Goolsbee may have told Candadian officials during the Ohio primary, and whatever NAFTA trashing Obama the candidate thought he needed to do to win it (before he lost it to Hillary Clinton), the evidence is in: Obama the president has shown no inclination to undo NAFTA. [read post]
7 Mar 2008, 1:07 pm
Goolsbee said something consistent with Obama's official position -- that he wanted protections added, but it wasn't going to be a fundamental change or revocation of NAFTA, and that Obama was not a protectionist. [read post]
2 May 2009, 8:25 am
" Of course, this balanced, more pragmatic position on trade was influenced by his star advisors, including the University of Chicago economics professor Austan Goolsbee. [read post]
27 Jan 2009, 1:31 am
"In March 2008 a Canadian official leaked a memorandum of notes taken during a meeting with Austan Goolsbee, a top economic advisor for the Obama campaign. [read post]
5 Aug 2021, 6:00 am by Kevin Kaufman
In 2006, future Council of Economic Advisers chairman Austan Goolsbee found that the adoption of return-free filing would save taxpayers $2 billion a year in tax preparation fees, as well as 225 million hours of saved time. [read post]
26 Jan 2015, 8:37 am by June Casey
Austan Goolsbee, Professor, University of Chicago Booth School of Business; former Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers under President Obama— “There have been lots of books written on why and how individuals make bad decisions. [read post]
2 Mar 2018, 6:32 am by Colby Pastre
” On the other end of the spectrum, Austan Goolsbee, former chairman of the Council of Economic Advisors under President Obama, simply wrote “stupid. [read post]