Alan Auerbach quoted in Los Angeles Times, July 24, 2012
“Unfortunately, this is the new normal in Washington,” said Alan Auerbach.
Alan Auerbach quoted in Los Angeles Times, July 24, 2012
“Unfortunately, this is the new normal in Washington,” said Alan Auerbach.
Alan Auerbach cited in The Wall Street Journal, March 14, 2012
Modern economic theory and empirical evidence—including a series of papers by one of us (Hassett) and Alan Auerbach of the University of California, Berkeley—show that raising taxes on dividends at the individual level increases the cost of equity capital and lowers asset prices, harming consumers while hindering firms’ ability to hire workers.
The Wall Street Journal, The Numbers Guy, February 18, 2012 by Carl Bialik
http://on.wsj.com/GEWpix
“This is, in a sense, an issue of what the right debt measure is,” says Alan Auerbach, an economist at the University of California, Berkeley. “Implicit liabilities belong in there somewhere, although there is no simple aggregation.”
-The New York Times, January 6, 2012 by Binyamin Appelbaum
http://nyti.ms/wQaAQr
A recent study of federal spending since World War II by Alan Auerbach and Yuriy Gorodnichenko, both economists at the University of California, Berkeley, found that the economic benefits from nonmilitary spending were at least 50 percent larger than those from defense spending during periods of normal growth.
-Bloomberg, January 6, 2012 by the Editors
http://wapo.st/wvzhqo
Ultimately, everyone will have to contribute―in the form of increased taxes, curtailed services or both. The longer we wait, the worse the problem will get: Auerbach estimates that another five years of current policy would bring the structural budget deficit to 5.8 percent of GDP a year.
National Journal, January 5, 2012 by Nancy Cook
http://www.nationaljournal.com/magazine/romney-s-red-blooded-fiscal-policy-20120105
“It’s hard to see how you would benefit under Romney if you’re making under $75,000 a year,” says Alan Auerbach, the Robert D. Burch professor of economics and law at the University of California (Berkeley).
KQED News, December 29, 2011 Host Kelly Wilkinson
http://www.kqed.org/a/kqednews/RN201112291730/a
“It’s part of the governor’s agenda to shift responsibilities to the local governments without giving them enough money to pay for it. It’s what we’re observing at the national level, too, the federal government is shifting responsibility onto the states and not giving them the money to pay for it. It’s what governments do when they don’t have enough money.”
National Public Radio, December 10, 2011 by Joel Rose
http://www.npr.org/2011/12/10/143481423/alternate-routes-to-one-goal-tax-the-wealthy
“The very word ‘deal’ doesn’t exist out here,” says Alan Auerbach.
KQED-FM, November 22, 2011 Host Cy Musiker
http://www.kqed.org/a/kqednews/RN201111221730/a
“Certainly relying more on sales tax and less on the income tax would probably help reduce the volatility of state revenues, which is one of the main objectives of this proposal.”
San Francisco Chronicle, November 9, 2011 by Joe Garofoli
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/11/09/MN7I1LRKVN.DTL&type=printable
“All of these plans would lower taxes on high-income earners,” said Alan Auerbach, a professor of economics and law at UC Berkeley.
KQED-FM, October 21, 2011 Host Dave Iverson
http://www.kqed.org/a/forum/R201110210900
“What are the potential benefits of this proposal, both in the short run, when we’re still in a weak economy, or the long run? Of course, the answers will differ whether it’s the opponents or the candidates giving the answer.”