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The crisis and recession have led to very low interest rates, it is true, but these events have also destroyed jobs, hamstrung economic growth and led to sharp declines in the values of many homes and businesses.

Ben Bernanke

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
The Fed is totally open.
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Fed Feel Open Totally
Investment banks manage to go bankrupt through their investment-banking activities, commercial banks manage to go bankrupt through their commercial-banking activities.
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Banking Banks Commercial Investment
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 GSEs are adequately capitalized. They are in no danger of failing.
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Capitalized Danger Failing
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
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
The amount of currency in circulation is not changing. The money supply is not changing in any significant way.
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If Wall Street crashes, does Main Street follow? Not necessarily.
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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.
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Kind Success Years
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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The benefit of appointing a hawkish central banker is the increased inflation-fighting credibility that such an appointment brings.
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Bankers Benefit Fighting
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
I am confident that we will meet whatever challenges the future may bring.
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Challenges Confident May Meet
I am very proud of my nerd-dom.
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If you are not happy with yourself, even the loftiest achievements won’t bring you much satisfaction.
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The crisis and recession have led to very low interest rates, it is true, but these events have also destroyed jobs, hamstrung economic growth and led to sharp declines in the values of many homes and businesses.

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The crisis and recession have led to very low interest rates, it is true, but these events have also destroyed jobs, hamstrung economic growth and led to sharp declines in the values of many homes and businesses.

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