The very first email I got [was] from a women's group saying 'We don't want this stimulus package to just create jobs for burly men.'
Christina RomerClimate change and dependence on foreign oil are problems that won't go away on their own. Tabling plans to deal with them doesn't make it easier for companies to plan and invest; it makes it harder.
Christina RomerYou care about the deficit because it allows you to do things you need to do to help people who are suffering.
Christina RomerTax increases appear to have a very large sustained and highly significant negative impact on output. Since most of our exogenous tax changes are in fact reductions, the more intuitive way to express this result is that tax cuts have very large and persistent positive output effects
Christina Romer