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I’d throw dollars out of helicopters if I had to, to stimulate the economy.

Ben Bernanke

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 lesson of history is that you do not get a sustained economic recovery as long as the financial system is in crisis.
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Lessons Long Recovery
If Wall Street crashes, does Main Street follow? Not necessarily.
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Crash Doe Wall
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
If your uniform isn’t dirty, you haven’t been in the game.
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Dirty Game Graduation
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
The central bank needs to be able to make policy without short term political concerns.
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Able Needs Political
I am confident that we will meet whatever challenges the future may bring.
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Challenges Confident May Meet
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 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
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
Nobody really understands gold prices and I don’t pretend to understand them either.
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Gold Gold Price
It takes about two and a half percent growth just to keep unemployment stable.
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Growth Two Unemployment
Over the years, the U.S. economy has shown a remarkable ability to absorb shocks of all kinds, to recover, and to continue to grow.
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Kind Success Years
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
I come from Main Street, from a small town that’s really depressed.
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Main Street Small Towns

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