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If Wall Street crashes, does Main Street follow? Not necessarily.

Ben Bernanke

It takes about two and a half percent growth just to keep unemployment stable.
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Growth Two Unemployment
The best approach here, if at all possible, is to use supervisory and regulatory methods to restrain undue risk-taking and to make sure the system is resilient in case an asset-price bubble bursts in the future.
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Investing Risk Use
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
Nobody really understands gold prices and I don’t pretend to understand them either.
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Gold Gold Price
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
The crisis and recession have led to very low interest rates, it is true, but these events have also destroyed jobs, hamstrung economic growth and led to sharp declines in the values of many homes and businesses.
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Growth Home Jobs
The more guidance a central bank can provide the public about how policy is likely to evolve the greater the chance that market participants will make appropriate inferences.
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Chance Guidance Inference
The Federal Reserve will not monetize the debt.
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Debt Federal Reserve Reserves
I’d throw dollars out of helicopters if I had to, to stimulate the economy.
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Dollars Economy Helicopters
Not all information is beneficial.
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Beneficial Information
The Federal Reserve is not currently forecasting a recession.
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Federal Forecasting Recession Reserve
It’s the price of success: people start to think you’re omnipotent.
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People Price Success Thinking
It must be awfully frustrating to get a small raise at work and then have it all eaten by a higher cost of commuting.
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Cost Frustrating Raises
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
In fact, the world needs more nerds.
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Needs Nerd World
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

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