17 Quotes by Edward Lazear

Over a longer period of time, it would be a significant problem.

Over the longer period of time it would move in exactly the wrong direction because it would encourage us to use more oil, not less.

We are moving into that phase where we expect that wage growth will catch up and take productivity over.

There's not much we can do about it in the short run, and that's the reality.

It would be a significant problem and it would move in exactly the wrong direction.

Are people behaving as if they believe this is a weak economy? I see no indication of that. In fact, I see the contrary.

That probably is one of the policies we would like to avoid.

If you look at the housing market and say, are housing prices going up where job growth is high, where wage growth is high, where demographic movement brings people into the housing market? All of those things seem to be true.