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I am very proud of my nerd-dom.

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Born: December 13

Ben Shalom Bernanke

Benjamin Shalom Bernanke

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

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

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.

Speaking as somebody who has been happily married for 35 years, I can't imagine any choice more consequential for a lifelong journey than the choice of a traveling companion.

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.

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.

I don't see much evidence of an equity bubble.

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.

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

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.

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

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

Under a cold turkey strategy, at each policy meeting the Federal Open Market Committee would make its best guess about where it ultimately wants the funds rate to be and would move to that rate in a single step.

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.

The Federal Reserve is not currently forecasting a recession.