If Mr. Trump gets precisely the policies he says he wants, then the economy will suffer a recession.

Our economy isn't going to recover until the housing market finds its footing.

Distressed properties are often vacant and in disrepair, and thus sold at significant discounts. As the share of distressed sales grows, home prices fall.

I'm a registered Democrat.

Past experience with fiscal austerity at home and overseas strongly suggests that it is best for the economy's long-run performance to restrain government spending rather than raise taxes.

We need to get rid of the debt ceiling law. It's anachronistic and it's a problem.

Our biggest challenge is to eliminate the popular perception that economists don't have anything useful to say.

Predicting recessions is indeed a dark art, but I think we are several years away from the next one.

The discussion in Washington has changed dramatically. I mean, it's no longer a question of should we address entitlements - it's no longer a question of do we need to reduce spending in the future.

I only have two things in my life, my family and work. If there's any time left over, then I play sports.

The upshot of Mr. Trump's economic policy positions under almost any scenario is that the U.S. economy will be more isolated and diminished.

And what’s the use of talking, if you already know that others don’t feel what you feel?

Every problem has a solution

And then many things became very clear... we learned perfectly that the life of a single human being is worth millions of times more than all the property of the richest man on earth.

I look back one more time. It's like a crater, a hole where something happened.

Only strong natures can really be sweet ones; those that seem sweet are in general only weak, and may easily turn sour.

Agents do nothing for the good of football. I'd like to see them lined up against a wall and machine-gunned ?some accountants and solicitors with them.

Drunk people run stop signs, high people wait for them to turn green

We must doubt the certainty of everything which passes through the senses, but how much more ought we to doubt things contrary to the senses, such as the existence of God and the soul.

In the "Not Two" are no separate things, yet all things are included.

Now I have to have the biggest P.O. box in the entire post office to get all the manuscripts coming in.