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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.

Ben Bernanke

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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 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.

Economics is a very difficult subject. I've compared it to trying to learn how to repair a car when the engine is running.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.