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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.

Ben Bernanke

Nobody really understands gold prices and I don’t pretend to understand them either.
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Gold Gold Price
I come from Main Street, from a small town that’s really depressed.
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Main Street Small Towns
I don’t see much evidence of an equity bubble.
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Bubbles Equity Evidence
With respect to their safety, derivatives, for the most part, are traded among very sophisticated financial institutions and individuals who have considerable incentive to understand them and to use them properly.
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Incentives Safety Use
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
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
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
Not all information is beneficial.
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Beneficial Information
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
It is not the responsibility of the Federal Bank – nor would it be appropriate – to protect lenders and investors from the consequences of their decisions
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Decision Economics Responsibility
The Fed is totally open.
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Fed Feel Open Totally
It’s the price of success: people start to think you’re omnipotent.
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People Price Success Thinking
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
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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Country Risk Thinking
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 central bank needs to be able to make policy without short term political concerns.
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Able Needs Political

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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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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