I’d throw dollars out of helicopters if I had to, to stimulate the economy.
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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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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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It must be awfully frustrating to get a small raise at work and then have it all eaten by a higher cost of commuting.
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The Federal Reserve is not currently forecasting a recession.
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I am very proud of my nerd-dom.
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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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The more guidance a central bank can provide the public about how policy is likely to evolve the greater the chance that market participants will make appropriate inferences.
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The GSEs are adequately capitalized. They are in no danger of failing.
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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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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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