Economists have the same occupational hazard as baseball managers and football coaches: Every person on the street knows their job better than they do.

Every job is an opportunity to be a better person.

I think that one of the things that we have to recognize is that the longer somebody doesn't have a job, the harder it is to get a new job. You know, the reality is that if you're out of job, and you're looking for a job, then the new employer's going to say, 'Well, why, you know, don't you have a job now? What's wrong with you?'

There is no tax policy that better describes how out of touch America's liberals are with the rest of the country than the estate tax. According to the Left, government seizure of a large share of the wealth of an American taxpayer is a moral imperative that serves social justice. Most Americans disagree, big time.

We've created the class of folks who are unemployed for longer than a year that it's very, very difficult to reconnect to society.

I know there are 20 economists out there who could do the job.