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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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I am very proud of my nerd-dom.

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

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.

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

It's true that the Federal Reserve faces a lot of political pressure and is unpopular in many circles.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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 sources of deflation are not a mystery. Deflation is in almost all cases a side effect of a collapse of aggregate demand.. a drop in spending so severe that producers must cut prices on an ongoing basis in order to find buyers.

If you are not happy with yourself, even the loftiest achievements won't bring you much satisfaction.

With respect to their safety, derivatives, for the most part, are traded among very sophisticated financial institutions and individuals who have considerable incentive to understand them and to use them properly.

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.

I don't see much evidence of an equity bubble.