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It's true that the Federal Reserve faces a lot of political pressure and is unpopular in many circles.

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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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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 Federal Reserve is not currently forecasting a recession.

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

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 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.