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

Ben Bernanke

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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.

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.

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.

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

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

I am very proud of my nerd-dom.

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

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

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.

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.

The Federal Reserve will not monetize the debt.

It takes about two and a half percent growth just to keep unemployment stable.

The Federal Reserve is not currently forecasting a recession.

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.

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.