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I am very proud of my nerd-dom.
Ben Bernanke
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Ben Bernanke
Age: 70
Born: 1953
Born: December 13
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The lesson of history is that you do not get a sustained economic recovery as long as the financial system is in crisis.
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A meritocracy is a system in which the people who are the luckiest in their health and genetic endowment luckiest in terms of family support, encouragement and, probably, income luckiest in their educational and career opportunities and luckiest in so many other ways difficult to enumerate - these are the folks who reap the largest rewards.
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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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Education - lifelong education for everyone - from toddlers to workers well advanced in their careers - is indeed an excellent investment for individuals and society as a whole.
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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.
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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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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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Achieving price stability is not only important in itself, it is also central to attaining the Federal Reserve's other mandate objectives of maximum sustainable employment and moderate long-term interest rates.
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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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We do not expect significant spillovers from the subprime market to the rest of the economy or to the financial system.
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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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I think that having good data, good statistics-and the United States generally has better macroeconomic statistics than most countries-and having good economists to interpret those data and present the policy alternatives, has a substantially beneficial effect on policymaking in the United States.
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If you are not happy with yourself, even the loftiest achievements won't bring you much satisfaction.
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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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One might as well try to perform brain surgery with a sledgehammer.
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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.
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If Wall Street crashes, does Main Street follow? Not necessarily.
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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.
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It's the price of success: people start to think you're omnipotent.
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