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The Federal Reserve is not currently forecasting a recession.

Ben Bernanke

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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 economist John Maynard Keynes said that in the long run, we are all dead. If he were around today he might say that, in the long run, we are all on Social Security and Medicare.

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.

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

I and others were mistaken early on in saying that the subprime crisis would be contained. The causal relationship between the housing problem and the broad financial system was very complex and difficult to predict.

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

I am very proud of my nerd-dom.

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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.

The Federal Reserve will not monetize the debt.

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