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Ben Bernanke

I am confident that we will meet whatever challenges the future may bring.
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Challenges Confident May Meet
The people who best use their advantages, or overcome adversity, and work honestly are those most worthy of admiration.
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Adversity People Use
Investment banks manage to go bankrupt through their investment-banking activities, commercial banks manage to go bankrupt through their commercial-banking activities.
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Banking Banks Commercial Investment
The benefit of appointing a hawkish central banker is the increased inflation-fighting credibility that such an appointment brings.
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Bankers Benefit Fighting
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 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
If your uniform isn’t dirty, you haven’t been in the game.
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Dirty Game Graduation
We’ve never had a decline in house prices on a nationwide basis. So, what I think what is more likely is that house prices will slow, maybe stabilize, might slow consumption spending a bit. I don’t think it’s going to drive the economy too far from its full employment path, though.
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Employment House Thinking
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 Wall Street crashes, does Main Street follow? Not necessarily.
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Crash Doe Wall
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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Economy Risk Struggle
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
Our mission, as set forth by the Congress is a critical one: to preserve price stability, to foster maximum sustainable growth in output and employment, and to promote a stable and efficient financial system that serves all Americans well and fairly.
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Employment Financial Growth
It’s the price of success: people start to think you’re omnipotent.
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People Price Success Thinking
I don’t fully understand movements in the gold price.
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Gold Movement Price
Economics is a very difficult subject. I’ve compared it to trying to learn how to repair a car when the engine is running.
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Car Running Trying

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