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It takes about two and a half percent growth just to keep unemployment stable.

Ben Bernanke

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
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
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
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
I am very proud of my nerd-dom.
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Doms Nerd Proud
While rising delinquencies and foreclosures will continue to weigh heavily on the housing market this year, it will not cripple the U.S.
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Delinquency Rising Years
I served seven years as the chair of the Princeton economics department where I had responsibility for major policy decisions, such as whether to serve bagels or doughnuts at the department coffee hour.
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Coffee Responsibility Years
It’s the price of success: people start to think you’re omnipotent.
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People Price Success Thinking
I come from Main Street, from a small town that’s really depressed.
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Main Street Small Towns
The more guidance a central bank can provide the public about how policy is likely to evolve the greater the chance that market participants will make appropriate inferences.
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Chance Guidance Inference
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
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
I don’t fully understand movements in the gold price.
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Gold Movement Price
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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September and October of 2008 was the worst financial crisis in global history, including the Great Depression.
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Financial October September
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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Banking Ratio Serious

It takes about two and a half percent growth just to keep unemployment stable.

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