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Ben Bernanke

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
…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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Goal Investing Levels
I am very proud of my nerd-dom.
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Doms Nerd Proud
The GSEs are adequately capitalized. They are in no danger of failing.
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Capitalized Danger Failing
A collapse in U.S. stock prices certainly would cause a lot of white knuckles on Wall Street. But what effect would it have on the broader U.S. economy? If Wall Street crashes, does Main Street follow? Not necessarily.
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Country Stock Street Wall White
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
Not all information is beneficial.
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Beneficial Information
I assure this committee that, if I am confirmed, I will be strictly independent of all political influences… essential to that institution’s ability to function effectively and achieve its mandated objectives.
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Essentials Independent Political
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
Life is amazingly unpredictable; any 22-year-old who thinks they know where they will be in 10 years, much less in 30, is simply lacking imagination.
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Imagination Thinking Years
Indeed, in general, healthy investment returns cannot be sustained in a weak economy, and of course it is difficult to save for retirement or other goals without the income from a job.
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Goal Job Retirement
The more important reason is that the research itself provides an important long-run perspective on the issues that we face on a day-to-day basis.
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Issues Perspective Running
Among the largest banks, the capital ratios remain good and I don’t expect any serious problems . . . . among the large, internationally active banks that make up a very substantial part of our banking system.
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Banking Ratio Serious
If your uniform isn’t dirty, you haven’t been in the game.
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Dirty Game Graduation
It’s the price of success: people start to think you’re omnipotent.
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People Price Success Thinking
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

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