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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.