This recession is the deepest in our lifetimes, the deepest since 1929. If you take the people thrown out of work in the 1982 recession, the 1991 recession, the 2001 recession, not only is this bigger, this is bigger than all of those combined.

Quote by Austan Goolsbee

On June 15 2009 he appeared as a guest on The Colbert Report. A. He was expected to play an informal role from Chicago in Obama's 2012 campaign.

S. Austan Dean Goolsbee (born August 18 1969) is an American economist and the Robert P. He advised President Obama during his 2004 U.