It takes about two and a half percent growth just to keep unemployment stable.
BEN BERNANKENobody 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.
More Ben Bernanke Quotes
-
-
If you are asking me if I would advocate that the Chinese go to greater flexibility in their exchange rate, I certainly would.
BEN BERNANKE -
In fact, the world needs more nerds.
BEN BERNANKE -
If your uniform isn’t dirty, you haven’t been in the game.
BEN BERNANKE -
September and October of 2008 was the worst financial crisis in global history, including the Great Depression.
BEN BERNANKE -
It’s the price of success: people start to think you’re omnipotent.
BEN BERNANKE -
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.
BEN BERNANKE -
Under current law, on January 1, 2013, there’s going to be a massive fiscal cliff of large spending cuts and tax increases.
BEN BERNANKE -
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 -
Life is amazingly unpredictable; any 22-year-old who thinks they know where they will be in 10 years, much less in 30, is simply lacking imagination.
BEN BERNANKE -
The sources of deflation are not a mystery. Deflation is in almost all cases a side effect of a collapse of aggregate demand.. a drop in spending so severe that producers must cut prices on an ongoing basis in order to find buyers.
BEN BERNANKE -
Both humanity’s capacity to innovate and the incentives to innovate are greater today than at any other time in history.
BEN BERNANKE -
I am very proud of my nerd-dom.
BEN BERNANKE -
…the Federal Reserve has the capacity to operate in domestic money markets to maintain interest rates at a level consistent with our economic goals
BEN BERNANKE -
We do not expect significant spillovers from the subprime market to the rest of the economy or to the financial system.
BEN BERNANKE -
The risk that the economy has entered a substantial downturn appears to have diminished over the past month or so.
BEN BERNANKE