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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.

Ben Bernanke

I am confident that we will meet whatever challenges the future may bring.
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Challenges Confident May Meet
It must be awfully frustrating to get a small raise at work and then have it all eaten by a higher cost of commuting.
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Cost Frustrating Raises
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
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
It’s the price of success: people start to think you’re omnipotent.
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People Price Success Thinking
I come from Main Street, from a small town that’s really depressed.
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Main Street Small Towns
September and October of 2008 was the worst financial crisis in global history, including the Great Depression.
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Financial October September
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
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
A gold standard doesn’t imply stability in the prices of the goods and services that people buy every day, it implies a stability in the price of gold itself.
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Gold People Standard
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
In fact, the world needs more nerds.
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Needs Nerd World
Developments in financial markets can have broad economic effects felt by many outside the markets.
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Development Economic Financial
I don’t see much evidence of an equity bubble.
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Bubbles Equity Evidence
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
Nobody really understands gold prices and I don’t pretend to understand them either.
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Gold Gold Price

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