Gene Sperling
Gene Sperling
Eugene "Gene" B. Sperlingis an American economist, who was Director of the National Economic Council and Assistant to the President for Economic Policy under Presidents Bill Clinton and Barack Obama...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth24 December 1958
CountryUnited States of America
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This is about fiscal discipline and first things first,
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I would say the question is not whether we're going to have growth or productivity, because I believe we will have both, but whether or not that will lead to a strengthening of the middle class or a hollowing out of the middle class.
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In the end, there will be a successful launch of this round. The differences that exist now will get ironed out in the late- hour negotiations.
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If you care about progress in market opening, you are going to have to have more ambitious compacts for sharing the downside costs as well as the benefits of open trade, ... As economists, we talk about how the benefits of lower prices are broadly shared. But the costs are very heavily concentrated.
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President Bush takes the credit for a 'shallow recession,' he denies any responsibility for an even 'more shallow' economic recovery.
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but I'm actually quite confident that we will iron it out and ? that we will have a more formal agreement quite soon.
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What does it say about their priorities and their values that they tax the poorest families ... as their preferred solution to escape the budgetary mess they created for themselves.
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We're in a very deep hole on job market, ... We've had a couple of steps in the right direction, but we have a lot farther to dig ourselves out.
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We're not gonna put WTO conditions on China that have never been put on any other country before.
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There is no question in the world that educating a girl is good for her country and good for her. The challenge is, is it good for her parents who are living in extreme poverty, who need the girl's help to take care of getting firewood, water, taking care of young children?
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We want to provide an incentive for the auto industry and the American consumer to produce and purchase the cars of the future.