When Texans suffered from the collapse of the oil market in the 1980s, they could rely on the fiscal union to help them. When Texas boomed with rising oil prices in the 2000s, it contributed to the union to help harder hit regions.

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.