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The Federal Reserve is not currently forecasting a recession.

Ben Bernanke

The people who best use their advantages, or overcome adversity, and work honestly are those most worthy of admiration.
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Adversity People Use
In the future, my communications with the public and with the markets will be entirely through regular and formal channels.
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Communication Formal
The benefit of appointing a hawkish central banker is the increased inflation-fighting credibility that such an appointment brings.
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Bankers Benefit Fighting
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
The Federal Reserve will not monetize the debt.
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Debt Federal Reserve Reserves
Under a cold turkey strategy, at each policy meeting the Federal Open Market Committee would make its best guess about where it ultimately wants the funds rate to be and would move to that rate in a single step.
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Committee Country Moving
I don’t see much evidence of an equity bubble.
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Bubbles Equity Evidence
The risk exists that, with aggregate demand exhibiting considerable momentum, output could overshoot its sustainable path, leading ultimately in the absence of countervailing monetary policy action to further upward pressure on inflation.
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Demand Path Risk
If you are not happy with yourself, even the loftiest achievements won’t bring you much satisfaction.
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Achievement Not Happy Satisfaction
Both humanity’s capacity to innovate and the incentives to innovate are greater today than at any other time in history.
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Humanity Incentives Today
We do not expect significant spillovers from the subprime market to the rest of the economy or to the financial system.
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Economy Financial Significant
In fact, the world needs more nerds.
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Needs Nerd World
It’s the price of success: people start to think you’re omnipotent.
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People Price Success Thinking
If Wall Street crashes, does Main Street follow? Not necessarily.
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Crash Doe Wall
Under current law, on January 1, 2013, there’s going to be a massive fiscal cliff of large spending cuts and tax increases.
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Cutting Important Law
Nobody really understands gold prices and I don’t pretend to understand them either.
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Gold Gold Price

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