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I don’t think that Chinese ownership of U.S. assets is so large as to put our country at risk economically.

Ben Bernanke

September and October of 2008 was the worst financial crisis in global history, including the Great Depression.
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Financial October September
It’s the price of success: people start to think you’re omnipotent.
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People Price Success Thinking
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
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
One might as well try to perform brain surgery with a sledgehammer.
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Brain might Trying
The impact on the broader economy and financial markets of the problems in the subprime markets seems likely to be contained.
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Financial Impact Problem
I come from Main Street, from a small town that’s really depressed.
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Main Street Small Towns
If Wall Street crashes, does Main Street follow? Not necessarily.
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Crash Doe Wall
Developments in financial markets can have broad economic effects felt by many outside the markets.
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Development Economic Financial
If your uniform isn’t dirty, you haven’t been in the game.
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Dirty Game Graduation
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
The lesson of history is that you do not get a sustained economic recovery as long as the financial system is in crisis.
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Lessons Long Recovery
Over the years, the U.S. economy has shown a remarkable ability to absorb shocks of all kinds, to recover, and to continue to grow.
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Kind Success Years
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
I am confident that we will meet whatever challenges the future may bring.
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Challenges Confident May Meet
Monetary policy cannot do much about long-run growth, all we can try to do is to try to smooth out periods where the economy is depressed because of lack of demand
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Growth Long Running

I don’t think that Chinese ownership of U.S. assets is so large as to put our country at risk economically.

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