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Austan Goolsbee
@Austan_Goolsbee
President & CEO @ChicagoFed, prof emeritus @ChicagoBooth, former Chairman @WhiteHouseCEA. I don’t speak for the Fed or others on FOMC.
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    Austan Goolsbee
    @Austan_Goolsbee
    Jun 28, 2023
    This combines 2 things that tick me off: not checking data & not knowing The Simpsons 2023: Nuclear technician salary in IL: $93,210 4 bedroom house in Springfield IL: $220,000 Burns illegally put him in a job req. a nuclear phys degree so he went to college in season 5 ep. 3
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    @InternetH0F
    Jun 27, 2023
    :/
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    Austan Goolsbee
    @Austan_Goolsbee
    Mar 9, 2020
    Replying to @tracyalloway @StephenSpratt and @Ruth_Liew10
    @jonfavs @TVietor08 @hhigginbottom @davidaxelrod you guys remember when we had to break the glass and pull out the emergency bourbon during the ‘08 campaign that day when the whole world fell apart? The market wasn’t as scared as it is right now.
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    Austan Goolsbee
    @Austan_Goolsbee
    Jul 22, 2021
    I lost my old man this week at age 81. A larger-than-life figure, he was my hero to the very end.
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    Austan Goolsbee
    @Austan_Goolsbee
    Nov 8, 2020
    Replying to @megynkelly
    Stop.
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    Austan Goolsbee
    @Austan_Goolsbee
    Jul 8, 2022
    Reminder that when unemployment is already 3.6%, adding 372,000 is a tremendous number.
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    Austan Goolsbee
    @Austan_Goolsbee
    Apr 7, 2019
    Your weekly reminder that Rs held up and then blocked the nomination for this same job of a guy that won the Nobel prize (in economics) for not being “sufficiently qualified”
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    Catherine Rampell
    @crampell
    Apr 6, 2019
    In a recent episode of "The Herman Cain Show," Herman Cain rants about Democratic and media conspiracies, confuses job hires vs. job openings, and doesn't appear to know the difference between the BLS jobs report and ADP private payrolls report westernjournal.com/hermancain/dem…
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    Austan Goolsbee
    @Austan_Goolsbee
    Sep 6, 2020
    Reminder from 20 years ago: a Gore fundraiser was convicted of 5 felonies for doing exactly this
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    Maggie Haberman
    @maggieNYT
    Sep 6, 2020
    Louis DeJoy’s rise as GOP fundraiser was powered by contributions from company workers who were later reimbursed, former employees say - The Washington Post washingtonpost.com/investigations…
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    Austan Goolsbee
    @Austan_Goolsbee
    Nov 15, 2020
    Were there people during the Blitz in London who refused to turn their lights off at night even though it would attract German bombers?
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    Austan Goolsbee
    @Austan_Goolsbee
    Jun 5, 2020
    The job collapse last month was across the board. This rebound was about 1/10th of the collapse and the majority of the job gains were in just one sector--leisure and hospitality. That feels a bit too dead-cat-bouncy for my taste.
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    Austan Goolsbee
    @Austan_Goolsbee
    Jun 13, 2018
    Remember the time you withdrew from the Iran deal and oil prices shot up (and haven’t come down)?
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    Donald J. Trump
    @realDonaldTrump
    Jun 13, 2018
    Oil prices are too high, OPEC is at it again. Not good!
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    Austan Goolsbee
    @Austan_Goolsbee
    Nov 20, 2020
    Simple question for each US Senator: when you publicly swore to defend the constitution of the United States from all enemies, foreign and domestic, so help you God, what did you think that meant?
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    Austan Goolsbee
    @Austan_Goolsbee
    Dec 27, 2016
    The dow is up 285% under Obama
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    Donald J. Trump
    @realDonaldTrump
    Dec 26, 2016
    The world was gloomy before I won - there was no hope. Now the market is up nearly 10% and Christmas spending is over a trillion dollars!
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    Austan Goolsbee
    @Austan_Goolsbee
    Aug 21, 2020
    Every time Trump refers to ‘sleepy joe’ it just reminds me how much better I will sleep when Joe Biden is President.
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    Austan Goolsbee
    @Austan_Goolsbee
    Jan 6, 2021
    Replying to @MattLaslo
    They gassed peaceful protesters outside the Whitehouse to make way for a photo op but they are going to let goober-nazis storm the capitol?