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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.

Ben Bernanke

It’s the price of success: people start to think you’re omnipotent.
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People Price Success Thinking
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
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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Employment Important Long
Under current law, on January 1, 2013, there’s going to be a massive fiscal cliff of large spending cuts and tax increases.
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Cutting Important Law
If you are not happy with yourself, even the loftiest achievements won’t bring you much satisfaction.
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Achievement Not Happy Satisfaction
Monetary policy cannot do much about long-run growth, all we can try to do is to try to smooth out periods where the economy is depressed because of lack of demand
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Growth Long Running
I come from Main Street, from a small town that’s really depressed.
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Main Street Small Towns
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
I am confident that we will meet whatever challenges the future may bring.
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Challenges Confident May Meet
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
The people who best use their advantages, or overcome adversity, and work honestly are those most worthy of admiration.
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Adversity People Use
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 basic prescription for preventing deflation is therefore straightforward, at least in principle: Use monetary and fiscal policy as needed to support aggregate spending.
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Business Principle Support
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
I’d throw dollars out of helicopters if I had to, to stimulate the economy.
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Dollars Economy Helicopters
September and October of 2008 was the worst financial crisis in global history, including the Great Depression.
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Financial October September
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
Education – lifelong education for everyone – from toddlers to workers well advanced in their careers – is indeed an excellent investment for individuals and society as a whole.
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Career Education Money
How much would you pay to avoid a second Depression?
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Borrow Depression Great Pay
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
The economist John Maynard Keynes said that in the long run, we are all dead. If he were around today he might say that, in the long run, we are all on Social Security and Medicare.
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Long might Running
The crisis in Europe has affected the US economy by acting as a drag on our exports, weighing on business and consumer confidence and pressuring US financial markets and institutions.
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Acting Country Financial Lace
Both humanity’s capacity to innovate and the incentives to innovate are greater today than at any other time in history.
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Humanity Incentives Today
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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Depression Financial Great Result
I don’t see much evidence of an equity bubble.
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Bubbles Equity Evidence
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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Employment Focus Long
The financial crisis appears to be mostly behind us, and the economy seems to have stabilized and is expanding again.
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Economy Expanding Financial

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