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

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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.

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.

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

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

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.

The Federal Reserve will not monetize the debt.

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

The Federal Reserve is not currently forecasting a recession.

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 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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.