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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.

Ben Bernanke

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
A gold standard doesn’t imply stability in the prices of the goods and services that people buy every day, it implies a stability in the price of gold itself.
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Gold People Standard
Under a cold turkey strategy, at each policy meeting the Federal Open Market Committee would make its best guess about where it ultimately wants the funds rate to be and would move to that rate in a single step.
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Committee Country Moving
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
I am very proud of my nerd-dom.
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Doms Nerd Proud
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 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
In fact, the world needs more nerds.
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Needs Nerd World
I don’t fully understand movements in the gold price.
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Gold Movement Price
In a manner as nearly consistent as possible with full utilization of economic resources and low and stable inflation. In other words, the best way to get out of trouble is not to get into it in the first place.
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Best Economic Inflation Resources Way
The American people are among the most productive in the world. We have the best technologies. We have – great universities. We have entrepreneurs.
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Entrepreneur People Technology World
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
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
If you want to understand geology, study earthquakes. If you want to understand the economy, study the Depression.
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Depression Earthquake Want
Economics is a very difficult subject. I’ve compared it to trying to learn how to repair a car when the engine is running.
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Car Running Trying

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