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I am confident that we will meet whatever challenges the future may bring.

Ben Bernanke

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
I come from Main Street, from a small town that’s really depressed.
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Main Street Small Towns
It’s true that the Federal Reserve faces a lot of political pressure and is unpopular in many circles.
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Circles Political Pressure
Although low inflation is generally good, inflation that is too low can pose risks to the economy – especially when the economy is struggling.
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Economy Risk Struggle
Indeed, in general, healthy investment returns cannot be sustained in a weak economy, and of course it is difficult to save for retirement or other goals without the income from a job.
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Goal Job Retirement
How much would you pay to avoid a second Depression?
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Borrow Depression Great Pay
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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Gold People Standard
Monetary policy cannot do much about long-run growth, all we can try to do is to try to smooth out periods where the economy is depressed because of lack of demand
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Growth Long Running
If your uniform isn’t dirty, you haven’t been in the game.
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Dirty Game Graduation
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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Chance Guidance Inference
[Virtual Currencies] may hold long-term promise, particularly if the innovations Promote a faster, more secure and more efficient payment system.
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Innovation Long Promise
…the Federal Reserve has the capacity to operate in domestic money markets to maintain interest rates at a level consistent with our economic goals
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Goal Investing Levels
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
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.
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Imagination Thinking Years
The Fed is totally open.
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Fed Feel Open Totally
The economist John Maynard Keynes said that in the long run, we are all dead. If he were around today he might say that, in the long run, we are all on Social Security and Medicare.
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Long might Running

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