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While rising delinquencies and foreclosures will continue to weigh heavily on the housing market this year, it will not cripple the U.S.

Ben Bernanke

…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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Goal Investing Levels
How much would you pay to avoid a second Depression?
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Borrow Depression Great Pay
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
The crisis in Europe has affected the US economy by acting as a drag on our exports, weighing on business and consumer confidence and pressuring US financial markets and institutions.
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Acting Country Financial Lace
I come from Main Street, from a small town that’s really depressed.
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Main Street Small Towns
The Federal Reserve will not monetize the debt.
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Debt Federal Reserve Reserves
So it’s important, as it affects overall levels of production and employment in the U.S. There are many domestic industries doing well in the United States, notwithstanding a strong dollar.
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Country Dollar Employment Overall Strong
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
Nobody really understands gold prices and I don’t pretend to understand them either.
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Gold Gold Price
I generally leave the details of fiscal programs to the Administration and Congress. That’s really their area of authority and responsibility, and I don’t think it’s appropriate for me to second guess.
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Details Responsibility Thinking
I am confident that we will meet whatever challenges the future may bring.
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Challenges Confident May Meet
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
Both humanity’s capacity to innovate and the incentives to innovate are greater today than at any other time in history.
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Humanity Incentives Today
House prices have risen by nearly 25 percent over the past two years. Although speculative activity has increased in some areas, at a national level these price increases largely reflect strong economic fundamentals.
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Fundamental Past Strong Years
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
September and October of 2008 was the worst financial crisis in global history, including the Great Depression.
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Financial October September

While rising delinquencies and foreclosures will continue to weigh heavily on the housing market this year, it will not cripple the U.S.

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