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I served seven years as the chair of the Princeton economics department where I had responsibility for major policy decisions, such as whether to serve bagels or doughnuts at the department coffee hour.

Ben Bernanke

I am very proud of my nerd-dom.
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Doms Nerd Proud
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
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
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
How much would you pay to avoid a second Depression?
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Borrow Depression Great Pay
In a manner as nearly consistent as possible with full utilization of economic resources and low and stable inflation. In other words, the best way to get out of trouble is not to get into it in the first place.
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Best Economic Inflation Resources Way
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
Investment banks manage to go bankrupt through their investment-banking activities, commercial banks manage to go bankrupt through their commercial-banking activities.
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Banking Banks Commercial Investment
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
Developments in financial markets can have broad economic effects felt by many outside the markets.
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Development Economic Financial
The risk that the economy has entered a substantial downturn appears to have diminished over the past month or so.
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Months Past Risk
If Wall Street crashes, does Main Street follow? Not necessarily.
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Crash Doe Wall
I assure this committee that, if I am confirmed, I will be strictly independent of all political influences… essential to that institution’s ability to function effectively and achieve its mandated objectives.
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Essentials Independent Political
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 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
I’d throw dollars out of helicopters if I had to, to stimulate the economy.
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Dollars Economy Helicopters

I served seven years as the chair of the Princeton economics department where I had responsibility for major policy decisions, such as whether to serve bagels or doughnuts at the department coffee hour.

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