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I don’t see much evidence of an equity bubble.

Ben Bernanke

Education – lifelong education for everyone – from toddlers to workers well advanced in their careers – is indeed an excellent investment for individuals and society as a whole.
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Career Education Money
With respect to their safety, derivatives, for the most part, are traded among very sophisticated financial institutions and individuals who have considerable incentive to understand them and to use them properly.
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Incentives Safety Use
The Federal Reserve is not currently forecasting a recession.
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Federal Forecasting Recession Reserve
It takes about two and a half percent growth just to keep unemployment stable.
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Growth Two Unemployment
Among the largest banks, the capital ratios remain good and I don’t expect any serious problems . . . . among the large, internationally active banks that make up a very substantial part of our banking system.
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Banking Ratio Serious
A money-financed tax cut is essentially equivalent to Milton Friedman’s famous ‘helicopter drop’ of money.
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Cutting Helicopters Milton
Not all information is beneficial.
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Beneficial Information
Nobody 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.
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Dirty Essential Games
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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Country Risk Thinking
The risk that the economy has entered a substantial downturn appears to have diminished over the past month or so.
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One might as well try to perform brain surgery with a sledgehammer.
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September and October of 2008 was the worst financial crisis in global history, including the Great Depression.
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I and others were mistaken early on in saying that the subprime crisis would be contained. The causal relationship between the housing problem and the broad financial system was very complex and difficult to predict.
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Casual Financial Problem Relationship
It is not the responsibility of the Federal Bank – nor would it be appropriate – to protect lenders and investors from the consequences of their decisions
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The financial crisis appears to be mostly behind us, and the economy seems to have stabilized and is expanding again.
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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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Delinquency Rising Years

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