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

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

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.

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.

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 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.

Our mission, as set forth by the Congress is a critical one: to preserve price stability, to foster maximum sustainable growth in output and employment, and to promote a stable and efficient financial system that serves all Americans well and fairly.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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