Climate change and dependence on foreign oil are problems that won't go away on their own. Tabling plans to deal with them doesn't make it easier for companies to plan and invest; it makes it harder.

Tax increases appear to have a very large sustained and highly significant negative impact on output.

Our estimates suggest that a tax increase of 1 percent of GDP reduces output over the next three years by nearly 3 percent. The effect is highly significant.

A natural way that an economist approaches a problem is to say, here's where I think the economy is going; this is what we need to deal with the problem.

What I desire to point out is that I wish the law was not so, but that being the law, I must follow it.

Making labor less expensive helps firms hire people.

Raising the minimum wage, as President Obama proposed in his State of the Union address, tends to be more popular with the general public than with economists.

Recent research suggests that New Deal programs may actually have had their primary impact on the economy by influencing consumer and business expectations of future growth and inflation.

Honest talk about the deficit is risky. Voters are more enthusiastic about the abstract notion of deficit reduction than about the painful details of accomplishing it.

Fewer people working means permanently lower tax revenues.

I think something that forces financial institutions to write down underwater mortgages, I think, would be a sensible thing to do.

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Education opens our minds eye to see the world with our own unique vision and perception.

Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your grandparents had adifferent word for burger flipping

Love is the linchpin that connects the material world with higher levels of existence.

We talk to God--that is prayer; God talks to us--that is inspiration.

I'm always trying to create something that the fans won't expect.

It must be a hard thing, to be a father; living in fear that your daughter would meet a boy she liked, but also having to worry if she didn't.

Shake off this erroneous notion that life is there and you're just gonna live in it, versus embrace it, change it, improve it, make your mark upon it.

The old should be explorers, be curious, risk transgression, explore oldness itself.

It is the the duty of a Webmaster to allocate URIs which you will be able to stand by in 2 years, in 20 years, in 200 years.