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Ben Bernanke

In the future, my communications with the public and with the markets will be entirely through regular and formal channels.
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Communication Formal
It takes about two and a half percent growth just to keep unemployment stable.
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Growth Two Unemployment
A money-financed tax cut is essentially equivalent to Milton Friedman’s famous ‘helicopter drop’ of money.
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Cutting Helicopters Milton
We’ve never had a decline in house prices on a nationwide basis. So, what I think what is more likely is that house prices will slow, maybe stabilize, might slow consumption spending a bit. I don’t think it’s going to drive the economy too far from its full employment path, though.
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Employment House Thinking
The basic prescription for preventing deflation is therefore straightforward, at least in principle: Use monetary and fiscal policy as needed to support aggregate spending.
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Business Principle Support
I’d throw dollars out of helicopters if I had to, to stimulate the economy.
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Dollars Economy Helicopters
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
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
The benefit of appointing a hawkish central banker is the increased inflation-fighting credibility that such an appointment brings.
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Bankers Benefit Fighting
A collapse in U.S. stock prices certainly would cause a lot of white knuckles on Wall Street. But what effect would it have on the broader U.S. economy? If Wall Street crashes, does Main Street follow? Not necessarily.
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Country Stock Street Wall White
I don’t fully understand movements in the gold price.
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Gold Movement Price
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
It’s the price of success: people start to think you’re omnipotent.
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People Price Success Thinking
The central bank needs to be able to make policy without short term political concerns.
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Able Needs Political
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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Issues Perspective Running
September and October of 2008 was the worst financial crisis in global history, including the Great Depression.
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Financial October September

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