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Weaker currencies abroad mean a strong dollar, and a stronger dollar, together with a weak global environment, is a drag on the U.S. econom.

Ben Bernanke

I don’t fully understand movements in the gold price.
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Gold Movement Price
The American people are among the most productive in the world. We have the best technologies. We have – great universities. We have entrepreneurs.
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Entrepreneur People Technology World
Nobody likes to fail but failure is an essential part of life and of learning. If your uniform isn’t dirty, you haven’t been in the game.
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Dirty Essential Games
The economist John Maynard Keynes said that in the long run, we are all dead. If he were around today he might say that, in the long run, we are all on Social Security and Medicare.
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Long might Running
The Federal Reserve is not currently forecasting a recession.
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Federal Forecasting Recession Reserve
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 GSEs are adequately capitalized. They are in no danger of failing.
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Capitalized Danger Failing
Monetary policy cannot do much about long-run growth, all we can try to do is to try to smooth out periods where the economy is depressed because of lack of demand
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Growth Long Running
The financial crisis appears to be mostly behind us, and the economy seems to have stabilized and is expanding again.
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Economy Expanding Financial
…the Federal Reserve has the capacity to operate in domestic money markets to maintain interest rates at a level consistent with our economic goals
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Goal Investing Levels
I am very proud of my nerd-dom.
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Doms Nerd Proud
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
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
It takes about two and a half percent growth just to keep unemployment stable.
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Growth Two Unemployment
The Fed is totally open.
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Fed Feel Open Totally
Economics is a very difficult subject. I’ve compared it to trying to learn how to repair a car when the engine is running.
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Car Running Trying

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