The principal linkages between Japan and the U.S. global economies are trade, financial markets, and commodity markets.

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.

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

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

Jace said that the cast of Gilligan's Island could do something anatomically unlikely with themselves.

Exercising a spiritual gift without showing true love is meaningless.

There is a myth that the portrait photographer is supposed to make the subject relax, and that's the real person. But I'm interested in whatever is going on. And I'm not that comfortable myself.

It is well known that no person who regards his reputation will ever kill a trout with anything but a fly. It requires some training on the part of the trout to take to this method.

Is life a pregnancy? That would make death a birth.

That's the real power of art, I think. Not to chide but to provoke challenge. Otherwise why bother?

What better preparation for a history which seeks to bring societies to life and to understand that life than to have really lived, commanded men, suffered with them and shared their joys.

Dreams they come and go, but thoughts like love will always grow.

Water adopts the shape of its receptacle, it is sometimes a trickle and sometimes a wild sea.

I never tried to use anything besides my own sweat and blood and talent to get somewhere.