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Nobody really understands gold prices and I don’t pretend to understand them either.

Ben Bernanke

The amount of currency in circulation is not changing. The money supply is not changing in any significant way.
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Currency Significant Way
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
A money-financed tax cut is essentially equivalent to Milton Friedman’s famous ‘helicopter drop’ of money.
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Cutting Helicopters Milton
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.
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Committee Country Moving
If your uniform isn’t dirty, you haven’t been in the game.
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Dirty Game Graduation
Developments in financial markets can have broad economic effects felt by many outside the markets.
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Development Economic Financial
I am confident that we will meet whatever challenges the future may bring.
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Challenges Confident May Meet
The GSEs are adequately capitalized. They are in no danger of failing.
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Capitalized Danger Failing
Every effort needs to be made to try and offset the costs of Katrina and Rita by reductions in other government programs, especially those that are wasteful, duplicative and ineffective.
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Effort Government Trying
While 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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Delinquency Rising Years
If Wall Street crashes, does Main Street follow? Not necessarily.
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Crash Doe Wall
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
I served seven years as the chair of the Princeton economics department where I had responsibility for major policy decisions, such as whether to serve bagels or doughnuts at the department coffee hour.
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Coffee Responsibility Years
Nobody really understands gold prices and I don’t pretend to understand them either.
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Gold Gold Price
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.
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Bankers Crash Economics
It’s the price of success: people start to think you’re omnipotent.
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People Price Success Thinking

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