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The GSEs are adequately capitalized. They are in no danger of failing.

Ben Bernanke

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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Demand Path Risk
The American people are among the most productive in the world. We have the best technologies. We have – great universities. We have entrepreneurs.
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Entrepreneur People Technology World
I served seven years as the chair of the Princeton economics department where I had responsibility for major policy decisions, such as whether to serve bagels or doughnuts at the department coffee hour.
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Coffee Responsibility Years
The people who best use their advantages, or overcome adversity, and work honestly are those most worthy of admiration.
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Adversity People Use
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
If you are asking me if I would advocate that the Chinese go to greater flexibility in their exchange rate, I certainly would.
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Asking Chinese Rate
The sources of deflation are not a mystery. Deflation is in almost all cases a side effect of a collapse of aggregate demand.. a drop in spending so severe that producers must cut prices on an ongoing basis in order to find buyers.
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Cutting Ongoing Order
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
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
If your uniform isn’t dirty, you haven’t been in the game.
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Dirty Game Graduation
[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
Nobody really understands gold prices and I don’t pretend to understand them either.
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It takes about two and a half percent growth just to keep unemployment stable.
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Growth Two Unemployment
The Federal Reserve is not currently forecasting a recession.
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Federal Forecasting Recession Reserve
The economic repercussions of a stock market crash depend less on the severity of the crash itself than on the response of economic policymakers, particularly central bankers.
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Bankers Crash Economics
The financial crisis appears to be mostly behind us, and the economy seems to have stabilized and is expanding again.
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Economy Expanding Financial

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