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 BERNANKEIt’s true that the Federal Reserve faces a lot of political pressure and is unpopular in many circles.
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Achieving price stability is not only important in itself, it is also central to attaining the Federal Reserve’s other mandate objectives of maximum sustainable employment and moderate long-term interest rates.
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The American people are among the most productive in the world. We have the best technologies. We have – great universities. We have entrepreneurs.
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I am confident that we will meet whatever challenges the future may bring.
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In the future, my communications with the public and with the markets will be entirely through regular and formal channels.
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The people who best use their advantages, or overcome adversity, and work honestly are those most worthy of admiration.
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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.
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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.
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So it’s important, as it affects overall levels of production and employment in the U.S. There are many domestic industries doing well in the United States, notwithstanding a strong dollar.
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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.
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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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I don’t fully understand movements in the gold price.
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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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Developments in financial markets can have broad economic effects felt by many outside the markets.
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The Federal Reserve will not monetize the debt.
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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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