The people who best use their advantages, or overcome adversity, and work honestly are those most worthy of admiration.
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More Ben Bernanke Quotes
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If you want to understand geology, study earthquakes. If you want to understand the economy, study the Depression.
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The financial crisis appears to be mostly behind us, and the economy seems to have stabilized and is expanding again.
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Nobody likes to fail but failure is an essential part of life and of learning. If your uniform isn’t dirty, you haven’t been in the game.
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…the Federal Reserve has the capacity to operate in domestic money markets to maintain interest rates at a level consistent with our economic goals
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I’d throw dollars out of helicopters if I had to, to stimulate the economy.
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One might as well try to perform brain surgery with a sledgehammer.
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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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Developments in financial markets can have broad economic effects felt by many outside the markets.
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The U.S. government has a technology, called a printing press (or, today, its electronic equivalent), that allows it to produce as many U.S. dollars as it wishes at essentially no cost.
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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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Nobody really understands gold prices and I don’t pretend to understand them either.
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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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It’s the price of success: people start to think you’re omnipotent.
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The Federal Reserve is not currently forecasting a recession.
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The Federal Reserve will not monetize the debt.
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