I guess whenever I'm in the paper, it's dealing with bridges falling apart, budget problems, pension crises - and saying we have to tackle these problems.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I like tackling problems that I can see making an impact on real people and real businesses immediately.
There are a lot of issues that I hope we deal with at some point that we haven't up to now, for various reasons. Some technical, and some more political.
We have major fiscal problems on our hand.
Politicians take something out of context to create problems.
I think we can work through a lot of these issues.
When I consider a problem, it is now instinctive for me to think about the institutions involved, the authorizing environment, possible coalitions, likely opposition, implementation, legal issues, resource dimensions, communications - and how the problem fits into a stream of other issues.
A natural way that an economist approaches a problem is to say, here's where I think the economy is going; this is what we need to deal with the problem.
These are national problems that require national solutions.
I'm focusing on the issues that bring people together and build broad majorities.
Deficits. Most people of knowledge say it's the biggest single problem facing the economic free world.
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