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The amount of currency in circulation is not changing. The money supply is not changing in any significant way.

Ben Bernanke

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
If Wall Street crashes, does Main Street follow? Not necessarily.
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Crash Doe Wall
I don’t see much evidence of an equity bubble.
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Bubbles Equity Evidence
I am confident that we will meet whatever challenges the future may bring.
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Challenges Confident May Meet
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
Developments in financial markets can have broad economic effects felt by many outside the markets.
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Development Economic Financial
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
It’s true that the Federal Reserve faces a lot of political pressure and is unpopular in many circles.
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Circles Political Pressure
The GSEs are adequately capitalized. They are in no danger of failing.
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Capitalized Danger Failing
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
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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Coffee Responsibility Years
Not all information is beneficial.
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Beneficial Information
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
The more important reason is that the research itself provides an important long-run perspective on the issues that we face on a day-to-day basis.
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Issues Perspective Running
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
I don’t fully understand movements in the gold price.
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Gold Movement Price

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