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The financial crisis appears to be mostly behind us, and the economy seems to have stabilized and is expanding again.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

Nobody really understands gold prices and I don't pretend to understand them either.

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.

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.

The benefit of appointing a hawkish central banker is the increased inflation-fighting credibility that such an appointment brings.

We do not expect significant spillovers from the subprime market to the rest of the economy or to the financial system.

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.

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

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.