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

Ben Bernanke

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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.

The risk exists that, with aggregate demand exhibiting considerable momentum, output could overshoot its sustainable path, leading ultimately in the absence of countervailing monetary policy action to further upward pressure on inflation.

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.

The Federal Reserve is not currently forecasting a recession.

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

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

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

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.

If you are not happy with yourself, even the loftiest achievements won't bring you much satisfaction.

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

I am very proud of my nerd-dom.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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