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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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

In the future, my communications with the public and with the markets will be entirely through regular and formal channels.

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.

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

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 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.

Economics is a very difficult subject. I've compared it to trying to learn how to repair a car when the engine is running.

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