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I don't think that Chinese ownership of U.S. assets is so large as to put our country at risk economically.

Ben Bernanke

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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.

Indeed, in general, healthy investment returns cannot be sustained in a weak economy, and of course it is difficult to save for retirement or other goals without the income from a job.

We do not expect significant spillovers from the subprime market to the rest of the economy or to the financial system.

If you are asking me if I would advocate that the Chinese go to greater flexibility in their exchange rate, I certainly would.

I am very proud of my nerd-dom.

To avoid large and unsustainable budget deficits, the nation will ultimately have to choose among higher taxes, modifications to entitlement programs such as Social Security and Medicare, less spending on everything else from education to defense, or some combination of the above.

The economic repercussions of a stock market crash depend less on the severity of the crash itself than on the response of economic policymakers, particularly central bankers.

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

Life is amazingly unpredictable any 22-year-old who thinks they know where they will be in 10 years, much less in 30, is simply lacking imagination.

The American people are among the most productive in the world. We have the best technologies. We have - great universities. We have entrepreneurs.

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.

It's the price of success: people start to think you're omnipotent.

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.

One might as well try to perform brain surgery with a sledgehammer.

Nobody really understands gold prices and I don't pretend to understand them either.

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.

The financial crisis appears to be mostly behind us, and the economy seems to have stabilized and is expanding again.