Austan Dean Goolsbee was born on August 18,1969 and is an American economist and writer.
23 Facts About Austan Goolsbee
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Austan Goolsbee is the President of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago.
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Austan Goolsbee was born in Waco, Texas, the son of Linda Catherine and the late Arthur Leon Austan Goolsbee, a former executive of Utility Trailer Manufacturing Company.
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Austan Goolsbee was named an Alfred P Sloan Fellow and Fulbright Scholar.
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Austan Goolsbee has been a Research Fellow at the American Bar Foundation, Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and a member of the Panel of Economic Advisors to the Congressional Budget Office.
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Austan Goolsbee was previously named a Senior Economist to the Progressive Policy Institute and a Distinguished Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress.
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Austan Goolsbee has taught MBA classes on microeconomics, platform competition, economics and policy in the telecom, media and technology industries and economic policy and Ph.
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Austan Goolsbee is the former host of the television show History's Business on the History Channel.
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Austan Goolsbee continues to serve as a columnist for it today.
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Austan Goolsbee has published papers in various peer-reviewed journals and books.
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Austan Goolsbee advised President Obama during his 2004 US Senate race and was senior economic policy adviser during the 2008 Obama presidential campaign.
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Austan Goolsbee was nominated by Obama to serve on the Council of Economic Advisers on his first day in office.
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Austan Goolsbee was confirmed by the Senate on March 10,2009.
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Austan Goolsbee concurrently served as chief economist and chief of staff at the Economic Recovery Advisory Board.
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Austan Goolsbee was designated chair of the Council on September 10,2010 succeeding Christina Romer.
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Austan Goolsbee starred in the White House Whiteboards which explained administration policy in an accessible way.
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Outside of the standard political news shows Austan Goolsbee was a frequent guest on comedy shows, as well.
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Austan Goolsbee was interviewed by Jon Stewart for The Daily Show on August 11,2009; February 1,2010; October 25,2010; February 24,2011; August 3,2011; and September 6,2012.
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Austan Goolsbee made a second appearance on The Colbert Report on October 13,2010, where he defended Obama's tax cut policies which would allow tax breaks to expire for Americans earning more than $250,000 per year.
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In January 2011, Austan Goolsbee expressed the administration's confidence that the US debt limit would be raised, noting that rhetoric from some members of Congress, who suggested the routine increase should be opposed, "[appear] to reflect a deep misunderstanding of the consequences of default".
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On June 6,2011, Austan Goolsbee announced that he would return to the University of Chicago.
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Austan Goolsbee was expected to play an informal role from Chicago in Obama's 2012 campaign.
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Austan Goolsbee topped The New Yorker's list of the Ten Most Intriguing Political Personalities of 2010.