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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.

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 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
The central bank needs to be able to make policy without short term political concerns.
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Able Needs Political
I am very proud of my nerd-dom.
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Doms Nerd Proud
Nobody really understands gold prices and I don’t pretend to understand them either.
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Gold Gold Price
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
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
I don’t fully understand movements in the gold price.
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Gold Movement Price
Every effort needs to be made to try and offset the costs of Katrina and Rita by reductions in other government programs, especially those that are wasteful, duplicative and ineffective.
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Effort Government Trying
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
I come from Main Street, from a small town that’s really depressed.
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Main Street Small Towns
We do not expect significant spillovers from the subprime market to the rest of the economy or to the financial system.
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Economy Financial Significant
A money-financed tax cut is essentially equivalent to Milton Friedman’s famous ‘helicopter drop’ of money.
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Cutting Helicopters Milton
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
Weaker 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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Important Mean Strong
I and others were mistaken early on in saying that the subprime crisis would be contained. The causal relationship between the housing problem and the broad financial system was very complex and difficult to predict.
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Casual Financial Problem Relationship

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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