International lending banks need to focus on areas where private investment doesn't go, such as infrastructure projects, education and poverty relief.

Active learning is always involved with interaction between teachers and students and Socratic methods and that's gonna continue.

The problem is a lot of what is called economics is not economics. It is more ideology or religion.

The striking thing about America is - it's historically, extraordinary unusual, I don't of any other instance - is that productivity of workers and wages have not moved in tandem.

When you're facing the threat of recession, you need to have an expansionary monetary and fiscal policy. Pre-Keynesian, Hooverite views are dead everywhere except on 19th Street in Washington.

The important lesson of the deficit is - and the national debt - is we have to be careful about how we're spending money.

Trump said we got snookered. That those agreements like NAFTA were the worst agreements ever and suggested that our trade negotiators were snookered by these smart negotiators from Mexico or Africa. It is laughable. I have watched these trade negotiations. We got what we wanted.