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In the future, my communications with the public and with the markets will be entirely through regular and formal channels.

Ben Bernanke

It takes about two and a half percent growth just to keep unemployment stable.
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Growth Two Unemployment
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
Nobody really understands gold prices and I don’t pretend to understand them either.
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Gold Gold Price
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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Government Technology Wish
The more important reason is that the research itself provides an important long-run perspective on the issues that we face on a day-to-day basis.
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Issues Perspective Running
September and October of 2008 was the worst financial crisis in global history, including the Great Depression.
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Financial October September
Among the largest banks, the capital ratios remain good and I don’t expect any serious problems . . . . among the large, internationally active banks that make up a very substantial part of our banking system.
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Banking Ratio Serious
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
I don’t fully understand movements in the gold price.
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Gold Movement Price
I don’t see much evidence of an equity bubble.
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Bubbles Equity Evidence
I am confident that we will meet whatever challenges the future may bring.
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Challenges Confident May Meet
Economics is a highly sophisticated field of thought that is superb at explaining to policymakers precisely why the choices they made in the past were wrong. About the future, not so much.
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Choices Fields Past
The risk that the economy has entered a substantial downturn appears to have diminished over the past month or so.
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Months Past Risk
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
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

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