black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

I am very proud of my nerd-dom.

Ben Bernanke

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.
BEN BERNANKE

Casual Financial Problem Relationship
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.
BEN BERNANKE

Incentives Safety Use
I assure this committee that, if I am confirmed, I will be strictly independent of all political influences… essential to that institution’s ability to function effectively and achieve its mandated objectives.
BEN BERNANKE

Essentials Independent Political
Importantly, in the 1930s, in the Great Depression, the Federal Reserve, despite its mandate, was quite passive and, as a result, financial crisis became very severe, lasted essentially from 1929 to 1933.
BEN BERNANKE

Depression Financial Great Result
In a manner as nearly consistent as possible with full utilization of economic resources and low and stable inflation. In other words, the best way to get out of trouble is not to get into it in the first place.
BEN BERNANKE

Best Economic Inflation Resources Way
I don’t think that Chinese ownership of U.S. assets is so large as to put our country at risk economically.
BEN BERNANKE

Country Risk Thinking
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.
BEN BERNANKE

Bankers Crash Economics
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.
BEN BERNANKE

Career Education Money
If I am confirmed, I am confident that my colleagues on the Federal Open Market Committee and I will maintain the focus on long-term price stability as monetary policy’s greatest contribution to general economic prosperity and maximum employment.
BEN BERNANKE

Employment Focus Long
The GSEs are adequately capitalized. They are in no danger of failing.
BEN BERNANKE

Capitalized Danger Failing
Indeed, in general, healthy investment returns cannot be sustained in a weak economy, and of course it is difficult to save for retirement or other goals without the income from a job.
BEN BERNANKE

Goal Job Retirement
Under a cold turkey strategy, at each policy meeting the Federal Open Market Committee would make its best guess about where it ultimately wants the funds rate to be and would move to that rate in a single step.
BEN BERNANKE

Committee Country Moving
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.
BEN BERNANKE

Issues Perspective Running
If you are asking me if I would advocate that the Chinese go to greater flexibility in their exchange rate, I certainly would.
BEN BERNANKE

Asking Chinese Rate
It must be awfully frustrating to get a small raise at work and then have it all eaten by a higher cost of commuting.
BEN BERNANKE

Cost Frustrating Raises
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.
BEN BERNANKE

Gold People Standard

I am very proud of my nerd-dom.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

I am very proud of my nerd-dom.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Ben Bernanke Quotes