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I’d throw dollars out of helicopters if I had to, to stimulate the economy.

Ben Bernanke

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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I don’t think that Chinese ownership of U.S. assets is so large as to put our country at risk economically.
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Developments in financial markets can have broad economic effects felt by many outside the markets.
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If Wall Street crashes, does Main Street follow? Not necessarily.
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A gold standard doesn’t imply stability in the prices of the goods and services that people buy every day, it implies a stability in the price of gold itself.
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The GSEs are adequately capitalized. They are in no danger of failing.
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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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A money-financed tax cut is essentially equivalent to Milton Friedman’s famous ‘helicopter drop’ of money.
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A collapse in U.S. stock prices certainly would cause a lot of white knuckles on Wall Street. But what effect would it have on the broader U.S. economy? If Wall Street crashes, does Main Street follow? Not necessarily.
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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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One might as well try to perform brain surgery with a sledgehammer.
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It’s the price of success: people start to think you’re omnipotent.
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The economic repercussions of a stock market crash depend less on the severity of the crash itself than on the response of economic policymakers, particularly central bankers.
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Not all information is beneficial.
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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.
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While rising delinquencies and foreclosures will continue to weigh heavily on the housing market this year, it will not cripple the U.S.
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