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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.

Ben Bernanke

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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.

I assure this committee that, if I am confirmed, I will be strictly independent of all political influences... essential to that institution's ability to function effectively and achieve its mandated objectives.

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.

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

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.

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

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

I am very proud of my nerd-dom.

The Federal Reserve is not currently forecasting a recession.

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

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.

A money-financed tax cut is essentially equivalent to Milton Friedman's famous 'helicopter drop' of money.

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

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.

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.

The risk exists that, with aggregate demand exhibiting considerable momentum, output could overshoot its sustainable path, leading ultimately in the absence of countervailing monetary policy action to further upward pressure on inflation.