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Both humanity’s capacity to innovate and the incentives to innovate are greater today than at any other time in history.

Ben Bernanke

Nobody really understands gold prices and I don’t pretend to understand them either.
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Gold Gold Price
Developments in financial markets can have broad economic effects felt by many outside the markets.
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Development Economic Financial
Education – lifelong education for everyone – from toddlers to workers well advanced in their careers – is indeed an excellent investment for individuals and society as a whole.
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Career Education Money
Our mission, as set forth by the Congress is a critical one: to preserve price stability, to foster maximum sustainable growth in output and employment, and to promote a stable and efficient financial system that serves all Americans well and fairly.
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Employment Financial Growth
Speaking as somebody who has been happily married for 35 years, I can’t imagine any choice more consequential for a lifelong journey than the choice of a traveling companion.
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Journey Travel Years
Over the years, the U.S. economy has shown a remarkable ability to absorb shocks of all kinds, to recover, and to continue to grow.
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Kind Success Years
The crisis and recession have led to very low interest rates, it is true, but these events have also destroyed jobs, hamstrung economic growth and led to sharp declines in the values of many homes and businesses.
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Growth Home Jobs
Achieving price stability is not only important in itself, it is also central to attaining the Federal Reserve’s other mandate objectives of maximum sustainable employment and moderate long-term interest rates.
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Employment Important Long
If I am confirmed, I am confident that my colleagues on the Federal Open Market Committee and I will maintain the focus on long-term price stability as monetary policy’s greatest contribution to general economic prosperity and maximum employment.
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Employment Focus Long
The amount of currency in circulation is not changing. The money supply is not changing in any significant way.
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Currency Significant Way
So it’s important, as it affects overall levels of production and employment in the U.S. There are many domestic industries doing well in the United States, notwithstanding a strong dollar.
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Country Dollar Employment Overall Strong
I am confident that we will meet whatever challenges the future may bring.
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Challenges Confident May Meet
How much would you pay to avoid a second Depression?
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Borrow Depression Great Pay
The U.S. government has a technology, called a printing press (or, today, its electronic equivalent), that allows it to produce as many U.S. dollars as it wishes at essentially no cost.
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Government Technology Wish
If you are asking me if I would advocate that the Chinese go to greater flexibility in their exchange rate, I certainly would.
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Asking Chinese Rate
Importantly, in the 1930s, in the Great Depression, the Federal Reserve, despite its mandate, was quite passive and, as a result, financial crisis became very severe, lasted essentially from 1929 to 1933.
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Depression Financial Great Result

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