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Ben Bernanke

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
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
Over the years, the U.S. economy has shown a remarkable ability to absorb shocks of all kinds, to recover, and to continue to grow.
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Kind Success Years
The Federal Reserve is not currently forecasting a recession.
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Federal Forecasting Recession Reserve
The Fed is totally open.
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Fed Feel Open Totally
The lesson of history is that you do not get a sustained economic recovery as long as the financial system is in crisis.
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Lessons Long Recovery
Not all information is beneficial.
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Beneficial Information
A money-financed tax cut is essentially equivalent to Milton Friedman’s famous ‘helicopter drop’ of money.
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Cutting Helicopters Milton
…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
If you are not happy with yourself, even the loftiest achievements won’t bring you much satisfaction.
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Achievement Not Happy Satisfaction
Under current law, on January 1, 2013, there’s going to be a massive fiscal cliff of large spending cuts and tax increases.
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Cutting Important Law
The Federal Reserve will not monetize the debt.
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Debt Federal Reserve Reserves
The amount of currency in circulation is not changing. The money supply is not changing in any significant way.
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Currency Significant Way
I am confident that we will meet whatever challenges the future may bring.
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Challenges Confident May Meet
If Wall Street crashes, does Main Street follow? Not necessarily.
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Crash Doe Wall
The crisis in Europe has affected the US economy by acting as a drag on our exports, weighing on business and consumer confidence and pressuring US financial markets and institutions.
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Acting Country Financial Lace

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