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I come from Main Street, from a small town that’s really depressed.

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
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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Humanity Incentives Today
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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Country Dollar Employment Overall Strong
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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Essentials Independent Political
I’d throw dollars out of helicopters if I had to, to stimulate the economy.
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Dollars Economy Helicopters
Economics is a highly sophisticated field of thought that is superb at explaining to policymakers precisely why the choices they made in the past were wrong. About the future, not so much.
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Choices Fields Past
The crisis and recession have led to very low interest rates, it is true, but these events have also destroyed jobs, hamstrung economic growth and led to sharp declines in the values of many homes and businesses.
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Growth Home Jobs
I am confident that we will meet whatever challenges the future may bring.
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Challenges Confident May Meet
One might as well try to perform brain surgery with a sledgehammer.
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Brain might Trying
The risk that the economy has entered a substantial downturn appears to have diminished over the past month or so.
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Months Past Risk
Speaking as somebody who has been happily married for 35 years, I can’t imagine any choice more consequential for a lifelong journey than the choice of a traveling companion.
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Journey Travel Years
Under a cold turkey strategy, at each policy meeting the Federal Open Market Committee would make its best guess about where it ultimately wants the funds rate to be and would move to that rate in a single step.
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Committee Country Moving
I am very proud of my nerd-dom.
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Doms Nerd Proud
The Federal Reserve is not currently forecasting a recession.
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Federal Forecasting Recession Reserve
The American people are among the most productive in the world. We have the best technologies. We have – great universities. We have entrepreneurs.
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Entrepreneur People Technology World
The impact on the broader economy and financial markets of the problems in the subprime markets seems likely to be contained.
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Financial Impact Problem

I come from Main Street, from a small town that’s really depressed.

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