Peter Orszag

Name: Estimated Costs of U. S. Operations in Iraq and Afghanistan and of Other Activities Related to the War on Terrorism
ISBN: 9781428988040

Economist

1968-12-16

Books by Peter Orszag

Estimated Costs of U. S. Operations in Iraq and Afghanistan and of Other Activities Related to the War on Terrorism

Testimony Before the Comm on the Budget, U. S. Hse. of Rep
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The most important thing for small businesses is getting the economy back on its feet. That - the key driver of small business activity is demand for their product, and that is what we are trying to do, getting the economy back on its feet. That's far more important than other factors.
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Total borrowing has imploded. Private borrowing has collapsed. And, in effect, the Treasury Department is the last borrower left standing.
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It is a foregone opportunity that we could have a trillion dollars more of income for the United States if we were producing at capacity rather than falling so far short of it.
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My mom is a very warm, typical sort of Jewish-mother type. And my dad has a somewhat, um, different personality.
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I have young kids. The fiscal burden that will be imposed on them is going to depend primarily on whether we tackle this looming problem in our health care system - with rising costs that don't seem, by the way, to be necessarily associated with higher quality. That is the key burden that they will face.
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