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Ben Bernanke

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Ben Bernanke
Age: 70
Born: 1953
Born: December 13
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Every effort needs to be made to try and offset the costs of Katrina and Rita by reductions in other government programs, especially those that are wasteful, duplicative and ineffective.
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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.
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I served seven years as the chair of the Princeton economics department where I had responsibility for major policy decisions, such as whether to serve bagels or doughnuts at the department coffee hour.
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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.
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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.
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The American people are among the most productive in the world. We have the best technologies. We have - great universities. We have entrepreneurs.
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The Federal Reserve will not monetize the debt.
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The Federal Reserve is not currently forecasting a recession.
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If you are asking me if I would advocate that the Chinese go to greater flexibility in their exchange rate, I certainly would.
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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.
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The crisis and recession have led to very low interest rates, it is true, but these events have also destroyed jobs, hamstrung economic growth and led to sharp declines in the values of many homes and businesses.
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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.
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In the future, my communications with the public and with the markets will be entirely through regular and formal channels.
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The financial crisis appears to be mostly behind us, and the economy seems to have stabilized and is expanding again.
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If you want to understand geology, study earthquakes. If you want to understand the economy, study the Depression.
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I don't see much evidence of an equity bubble.
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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.
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It's true that the Federal Reserve faces a lot of political pressure and is unpopular in many circles.
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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.
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Nobody really understands gold prices and I don't pretend to understand them either.
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