I don’t think that Chinese ownership of U.S. assets is so large as to put our country at risk economically.
BEN BERNANKEWhile 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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Education – lifelong education for everyone – from toddlers to workers well advanced in their careers – is indeed an excellent investment for individuals and society as a whole.
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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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Life is amazingly unpredictable; any 22-year-old who thinks they know where they will be in 10 years, much less in 30, is simply lacking imagination.
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If your uniform isn’t dirty, you haven’t been in the game.
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The Federal Reserve is not currently forecasting a recession.
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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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The GSEs are adequately capitalized. They are in no danger of failing.
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The central bank needs to be able to make policy without short term political concerns.
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Nobody really understands gold prices and I don’t pretend to understand them either.
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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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If Wall Street crashes, does Main Street follow? Not necessarily.
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The best approach here, if at all possible, is to use supervisory and regulatory methods to restrain undue risk-taking and to make sure the system is resilient in case an asset-price bubble bursts in the future.
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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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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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Although low inflation is generally good, inflation that is too low can pose risks to the economy – especially when the economy is struggling.
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