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…the Federal Reserve has the capacity to operate in domestic money markets to maintain interest rates at a level consistent with our economic goals

Ben Bernanke

If you are asking me if I would advocate that the Chinese go to greater flexibility in their exchange rate, I certainly would.
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Asking Chinese Rate
If your uniform isn’t dirty, you haven’t been in the game.
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Dirty Game Graduation
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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Entrepreneur People Technology World
Speaking as somebody who has been happily married for 35 years, I can’t imagine any choice more consequential for a lifelong journey than the choice of a traveling companion.
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Journey Travel Years
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
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
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 Federal Reserve is not currently forecasting a recession.
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Federal Forecasting Recession Reserve
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
The Fed is totally open.
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Fed Feel Open Totally
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
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
Although low inflation is generally good, inflation that is too low can pose risks to the economy – especially when the economy is struggling.
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Economy Risk Struggle
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
The risk exists that, with aggregate demand exhibiting considerable momentum, output could overshoot its sustainable path, leading ultimately in the absence of countervailing monetary policy action to further upward pressure on inflation.
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Demand Path Risk
It’s the price of success: people start to think you’re omnipotent.
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People Price Success Thinking

…the Federal Reserve has the capacity to operate in domestic money markets to maintain interest rates at a level consistent with our economic goals

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