The extension and expansion of the payroll tax holidays for workers would be number one on my list and key to avoiding 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.

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.

Success works as a cycle - growth and contraction, balancing and unbalancing - all while you're encountering hurdles that get higher and higher over time.

Preservation of the past has been one of humankind’s chief preoccupations for centuries, although I am not convinced much of it is worth preserving.

Celibacy sucks, no pun intended.

I was into all kinds of music as a teen - country music, because my dad was in a band that played country, and whatever my sister and brother were into.

Maybe you just never knew what it was like to want something you couldn't have before

There are wonderful things having to do with women's health. But not when it comes to abortion.

The way forward is to learn to see every startup in any industry as a grand experiment.

You know these love letters mix with whisky, just don't light a match when you kiss me.

Any idiot can get on a treadmill and watch TV and then take great pride in the fact they've ‘exercised.

There's nothing more important on our spiritual path than developing gentleness to oneself.