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The people who best use their advantages, or overcome adversity, and work honestly are those most worthy of admiration.

Ben Bernanke

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
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
If I am confirmed, I am confident that my colleagues on the Federal Open Market Committee and I will maintain the focus on long-term price stability as monetary policy’s greatest contribution to general economic prosperity and maximum employment.
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Employment Focus Long
Nobody really understands gold prices and I don’t pretend to understand them either.
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Gold Gold Price
Developments in financial markets can have broad economic effects felt by many outside the markets.
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Development Economic Financial
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
I come from Main Street, from a small town that’s really depressed.
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Main Street Small Towns
I don’t fully understand movements in the gold price.
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Gold Movement Price
I am confident that we will meet whatever challenges the future may bring.
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Challenges Confident May Meet
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 is not the responsibility of the Federal Bank – nor would it be appropriate – to protect lenders and investors from the consequences of their decisions
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Decision Economics Responsibility
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
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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Essentials Independent Political
The central bank needs to be able to make policy without short term political concerns.
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Able Needs Political
Indeed, in general, healthy investment returns cannot be sustained in a weak economy, and of course it is difficult to save for retirement or other goals without the income from a job.
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Goal Job Retirement

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