Under current law, on January 1, 2013, there’s going to be a massive fiscal cliff of large spending cuts and tax increases.
BEN BERNANKEWeaker currencies abroad mean a strong dollar, and a stronger dollar, together with a weak global environment, is a drag on the U.S. econom.
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It’s true that the Federal Reserve faces a lot of political pressure and is unpopular in many circles.
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The GSEs are adequately capitalized. They are in no danger of failing.
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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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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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A money-financed tax cut is essentially equivalent to Milton Friedman’s famous ‘helicopter drop’ of money.
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One might as well try to perform brain surgery with a sledgehammer.
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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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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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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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I don’t see much evidence of an equity bubble.
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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.
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The more important reason is that the research itself provides an important long-run perspective on the issues that we face on a day-to-day basis.
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The risk exists that, with aggregate demand exhibiting considerable momentum, output could overshoot its sustainable path, leading ultimately in the absence of countervailing monetary policy action to further upward pressure on inflation.
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The benefit of appointing a hawkish central banker is the increased inflation-fighting credibility that such an appointment brings.
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I’d throw dollars out of helicopters if I had to, to stimulate the economy.
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